2025 Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor's Degree Schools in Delaware

If you pursue a bachelor's degree in early childhood education, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #32 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor's Degree Schools in Delaware ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 59 bachelor's degrees in early childhood education during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on early childhood education students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of early childhood education students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized early childhood education related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for early childhood education students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Early Childhood Education Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor's Degree Schools in Delaware list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Early Childhood Education in Delaware

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in early childhood education.

Top Delaware Schools for a Bachelor's in Child development

1

University of Delaware
Newark, DE

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

43 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in early childhood education has to take a look at University of Delaware. Located in the suburb of Newark, UD is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in early childhood education from University of Delaware

2

Delaware State University
Dover, DE

10 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Delaware State University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in early childhood education. Del State is a medium-sized public university located in the small city of Dover.More information about a bachelor’s in early childhood education from Delaware State University

Best Early Childhood Education Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Early Childhood Education Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	707	284
Pennsylvania	698	1,240
Maryland	370	192
New Jersey	351	126
District of Columbia	226	12

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Rankings in Majors Related to Child development

Early Childhood Education is one of 13 different types of Teacher Education Grade Specific programs to choose from.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Elementary Education	218
Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching	4

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
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