Early Childhood Education at The City College of New York

If you plan to study early childhood education, take a look at what The City College of New York has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

CCNY is located in New York, New York and approximately 15,227 students attend the school each year. Of the 117 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from The City College of New York in 2021, 28 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.

CCNY Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

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

CCNY Early Childhood Education Rankings

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

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 CCNY 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
	4
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Graduate Certificate Schools	17
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	122
	135
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	272
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	418

In 2021, 36 students received their master’s degree in child development from CCNY. This makes it the #24 most popular school for child development master’s degree candidates in the country.

Child development Student Demographics at CCNY

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the child development majors at The City College of New York.

CCNY Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 28 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education from CCNY in 2020-2021, 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 CCNY since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 52% 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 The City College of New York with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	20
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

CCNY Early Childhood Education Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 36 students graduated with a master's degree in child development from CCNY. About 3% were men and 97% were women.

In the child development master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 75% of degree recipients. That is 31% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	16
White	9
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

CCNY 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

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 NY, the home state for The City College of New York.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Preschool Teachers	30,790	$48,630
Kindergarten Teachers	6,120	$79,410

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 Elsie140 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.