2025 Best Education Bachelor's Degree Schools in Delaware

Education is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #10 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual reviewed 2 schools in Delaware to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of education. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 429 bachelor's degrees in education during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Bachelor’s Degree Schools List

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

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 education students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other education students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• 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.
• Student Debt - How much debt education students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized education related body.

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

More Ways to Rank 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 Education Bachelor's Degree Schools in Delaware list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

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

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in education.

Top Delaware Schools for a Bachelor's in Education

1

University of Delaware
Newark, DE

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

258 Annual Graduates

University of Delaware is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in education. Located in the suburb of Newark, UD is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in education from University of Delaware

2

Wilmington University
New Castle, DE

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

133 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat Wilmington University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in education. Wilmington University is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of New Castle.More information about a bachelor’s in education from Wilmington University

Best Education Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania	37	3,896
New York	37	5,337
New Jersey	34	1,389
Maryland	33	1,049
District of Columbia	28	78

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Education Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Teacher Education Grade Specific	281
Teacher Education Subject Specific	79
General Education	42
Educational Administration	20
Special Education	7

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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Horadrim. More about our data sources and methodologies.