Early Childhood Education at Chestnut Hill College

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 Chestnut Hill College stacks up to those at other schools.

CHC is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 1,528.

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.

CHC Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

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

CHC Early Childhood Education Rankings

The child development major at CHC 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.

Child development Student Demographics at CHC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the child development majors at Chestnut Hill College.

CHC Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 11% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 89% went to women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 4% men. So male students are more repesented at CHC since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Chestnut Hill College with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	6
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

CHC Early Childhood Education Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 0% of child development master's degrees went to men and 100% went to women.

In the child development master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 50% of degree recipients. That is 4% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Chestnut Hill College with a master's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Montessori Teacher Education
• Secondary Education

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 PA, the home state for Chestnut Hill College.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Preschool Teachers	13,480	$29,250
Kindergarten Teachers	3,350	$62,510

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 Kiran under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.