by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Early Childhood and Family Studies is the 741st most popular major in the country with 259 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 250 early childhood and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major” ranking looked at 9 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in early childhood and family studies. That schools that top this list have a program in early childhood and family studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend College of the Ozarks. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major. College of the Ozarks is a small school located in Point Lookout, Missouri that handed out 6 bachelors’s early childhood and family studies degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major. EU is located in Saint Davids, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 bachelors’s early childhood and family studies degrees to qualified students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend American Public University System. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major. American Public University System is a large private for-profit school situated in Charles Town, West Virginia. It awarded 142 bachelors’s early childhood and family studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 98%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full American Public University System Early Childhood and Family Studies Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Carson - Newman University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major. Located in Jefferson City, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s early childhood and family studies students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tarleton State University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major. Located in Stephenville, Texas, this fairly large public school awarded 18 degrees to qualified bachelors’s early childhood and family studies students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Early Childhood and Family Studies at Tarleton
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major ranking. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is a large school located in Edinburg, Texas that handed out 29 bachelors’s early childhood and family studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Early Childhood and Family Studies Report
The University of Alabama landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major ranking. The University of Alabama is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 31 bachelors’s early childhood and family studies degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
University of Michigan - Dearborn came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major ranking. UM Dearborn is a medium-sized school located in Dearborn, Michigan that handed out 6 bachelors’s early childhood and family studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Early Childhood and Family Studies at University of Michigan - Dearborn
Eastern Michigan University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major ranking, coming in at #9. Eastern Michigan is a fairly large school located in Ypsilanti, Michigan that handed out 6 bachelors’s early childhood and family studies degrees in 2020-2021.
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