Early Childhood Education at California State University - Dominguez Hills

If you are interested in studying early childhood education, you may want to check out the program at California State University - Dominguez Hills. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

CSUDH is located in Carson, California and approximately 18,687 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 226 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from CSUDH.

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.

CSUDH Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

CSUDH Early Childhood Education Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks child development programs across the country. The following shows how CSUDH performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The child development major at CSUDH 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 Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	7
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	20
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	33
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	132
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	179
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	284
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Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	327
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	417
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Child development Student Demographics at CSUDH

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the child development majors at California State University - Dominguez Hills.

CSUDH Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 226 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in child development from CSUDH in 2021, 5% were men and 95% were women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 4% men. So male students are more repesented at CSUDH since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 47% more racial-ethnic minorities in its child development bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	23
Hispanic or Latino	169
White	6
International Students	13
Other Races/Ethnicities	8

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

Related Majors

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 CA, the home state for California State University - Dominguez Hills.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Preschool Teachers	52,950	$37,850
Kindergarten Teachers	11,580	$69,690

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.