Early Childhood Education at California State University - Northridge

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

CSUN is located in Northridge, California and approximately 40,381 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 400 child development majors received their bachelor's degree from CSUN.

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.

CSUN Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

CSUN Early Childhood Education Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The child development major at CSUN 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	4
	43
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	56
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	70
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	79
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	154
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	225

Child development Student Demographics at CSUN

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

CSUN Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 400 child development students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from CSUN, about 6% were men and 94% were women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 4% men. So male students are more repesented at CSUN since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 33% 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 - Northridge with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	17
Black or African American	17
Hispanic or Latino	266
White	54
International Students	25
Other Races/Ethnicities	21

CSUN 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 - Northridge.

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 Cbl62 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.