Early Childhood Education at California State University - San Marcos

If you plan to study early childhood education, take a look at what California State University - San Marcos has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

CSUSM is located in San Marcos, California and has a total student population of 16,367. In 2021, 118 child development majors received their bachelor's degree from CSUSM.

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.

CSUSM Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

CSUSM Early Childhood Education Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks child development programs across the country. The following shows how CSUSM 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 CSUSM 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	21
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Graduate Certificate Schools	34
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Graduate Certificate Schools	34
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	48
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	105
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	177
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	260
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	295
	324
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	325
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	377
	489

Child development Student Demographics at CSUSM

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

CSUSM Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 4% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 96% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 20% 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 - San Marcos with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	62
White	30
International Students	10
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

CSUSM 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 - San Marcos.

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 Eamuscatuli under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.