Early Childhood Education at California State University - Fullerton

Every early childhood education school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the child development program at California State University - Fullerton stacks up to those at other schools.

Cal State Fullerton is located in Fullerton, California and approximately 42,051 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 511 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from Cal State Fullerton.

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.

Cal State Fullerton Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

Cal State Fullerton Early Childhood Education Rankings

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

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 Cal State Fullerton 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	2
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	5
	25
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	42
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	42
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	48
	52
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	63
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	141
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	170

Child development Student Demographics at Cal State Fullerton

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

Cal State Fullerton Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

The child development program at Cal State Fullerton awarded 511 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 8% of these degrees went to men with the other 92% going to women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 4% men. So male students are more repesented at Cal State Fullerton since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 29% 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 - Fullerton with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	66
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	285
White	100
International Students	28
Other Races/Ethnicities	25

Cal State Fullerton 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 - Fullerton.

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
• Image Credit: By Bobak Ha’Eri under License

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