2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching in the Plains States Region

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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 Plains States region, there were 46 kindergarten/preschool education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 kindergarten/preschool education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in kindergarten/preschool education and teaching. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular kindergarten/preschool education and teaching programs in the United States.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree kindergarten/preschool education and teaching students.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching in the Plains States Region

1

Emporia State University
Emporia, Kansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Emporia State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s list. Emporia, Kansas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees to 22 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching at ESU

2

University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa

#25 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Northern Iowa. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s. UNI is located in Cedar Falls, Iowa and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching at UNI

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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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