2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 2,450 people earned their degree in kindergarten/preschool education and teaching, making the major the 288th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 155 kindergarten/preschool education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 60 kindergarten/preschool education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in kindergarten/preschool education and teaching. To top this list, a school must have a successful kindergarten/preschool education and teaching program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 3 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching in the Southwest Region

1

New Mexico Highlands University
Las Vegas, New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico Highlands University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s list. New Mexico Highlands University is a public institution located in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The school has a small population, and it awarded 34 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching at New Mexico Highlands University

2

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s. Located in Tucson, Arizona, this large public school awarded 18 degrees to qualified bachelors’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Arizona Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching Report

3

Western New Mexico University
Silver City, New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western New Mexico University. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s. Western New Mexico University is a small public school situated in Silver City, New Mexico. It awarded 8 bachelors’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Western New Mexico University Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching Report

• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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