Early Childhood Education at Delaware State University

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

Del State is located in Dover, Delaware and approximately 4,739 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 10 child development majors received their bachelor's degree from Del 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.

Del State Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

Del State Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at Del State 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 Del 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
	13
	38
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	49
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	52
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	78
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	144
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	263

Child development Student Demographics at Del State

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

Del State Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

The child development program at Del State awarded 10 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 0% of these degrees went to men with the other 100% going to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 56% 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 Delaware State University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Del 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

• Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching
• 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 DE, the home state for Delaware State University.

Occupation	Jobs in DE	Average Salary in DE
Preschool Teachers	2,150	$28,910
Kindergarten Teachers	390	$60,140

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 Smartyllama under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.