Early Childhood Education at Ashland University

What traits are you looking for in a child development school? To help you decide if Ashland University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's child development program.

Ashland is located in Ashland, Ohio and approximately 4,447 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 22 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from Ashland.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Early Childhood Education section at the bottom of this page.

Ashland Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

Ashland Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at Ashland compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The child development major at Ashland is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Early Childhood Education. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Graduate Certificate Schools	34
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	158
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	225
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	256
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	374
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	396
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	476
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Child development Student Demographics at Ashland

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the child development majors at Ashland University.

Ashland Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 5% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 95% went to women.

About 82% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at Ashland are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Ashland University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	18
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Ashland also has a doctoral program available in child development. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching

Careers That Child development Grads May Go Into

A degree in child development can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for OH, the home state for Ashland University.

Occupation	Jobs in OH	Average Salary in OH
Preschool Teachers	15,390	$29,020
Kindergarten Teachers	2,890	$59,750

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Ll1324 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.