Early Childhood Education at California State University - Sacramento

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

Sac State is located in Sacramento, California and has a total student population of 32,293. Of the 497 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from California State University - Sacramento in 2021, 477 of them were early childhood education majors.

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.

Sac State Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development
• Master’s Degree in Child development

Sac State Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at Sac State 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 Sac State 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	3
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	6
	7
	8
Best Early Childhood Education Master’s Degree Schools	13
	22
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	24
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	27
Best Value Early Childhood Education Master’s Degree Schools	31
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	33
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	37
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	112
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	122
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Master’s Degree Schools	151
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Master’s Degree Schools	182

In 2021, 2 students received their master’s degree in child development from Sac State. This makes it the #151 most popular school for child development master’s degree candidates in the country.

Child development Student Demographics at Sac State

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

Sac State Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 477 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in child development from Sac State in 2021, 7% were men and 93% were women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 4% men. So male students are more repesented at Sac State since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 27% 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 - Sacramento with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	87
Black or African American	26
Hispanic or Latino	193
White	106
International Students	9
Other Races/Ethnicities	56

Sac State Early Childhood Education Master’s Program

The child development program at Sac State awarded 2 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 0% of these degrees went to men with the other 100% going to women.

In the child development master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 50% of degree recipients. That is 6% better than the national average.*

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

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

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

Related Majors

• Teacher Development & Methodology

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 - Sacramento.

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 Stickpen under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.