Early Childhood Education at Colorado State University - Fort Collins

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

Colorado State is located in Fort Collins, Colorado and approximately 32,428 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 23 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from Colorado State.

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.

Colorado State Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

Colorado State Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at Colorado 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 Colorado 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	149
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	222
	234
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	260
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	359
	360
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	395
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	436
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	807

Child development Student Demographics at Colorado State

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the child development majors at Colorado State University - Fort Collins.

Colorado State Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 23 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education from Colorado State in 2020-2021, 4% were men and 96% were women.

About 70% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at Colorado State are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Colorado State University - Fort Collins with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	16
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Colorado 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

• Adult & Continuing 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 CO, the home state for Colorado State University - Fort Collins.

Occupation	Jobs in CO	Average Salary in CO
Preschool Teachers	8,700	$33,140
Kindergarten Teachers	3,630	$50,020

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 Spilly816 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.