Early Childhood Education at Claflin University

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

Claflin is located in Orangeburg, South Carolina and approximately 2,048 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 6 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from Claflin.

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.

Claflin Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

Claflin Early Childhood Education Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The child development major at Claflin 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
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	193
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	213
	299
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	327
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	329
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	356
	459
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	477
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	539
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	674

Child development Student Demographics at Claflin

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

Claflin Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 6 child development students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Claflin, about 17% were men and 83% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 39% 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 Claflin University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Elementary Education
• Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching

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 SC, the home state for Claflin University.

Occupation	Jobs in SC	Average Salary in SC
Preschool Teachers	5,940	$28,940
Kindergarten Teachers	2,120	$52,540

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 Ammodramus under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.