Early Childhood Education at Eastern Michigan University

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

Eastern Michigan is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan and has a total student population of 16,294.

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.

Eastern Michigan Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

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

Eastern Michigan Early Childhood Education Rankings

The child development major at Eastern Michigan 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 Eastern Michigan

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

Eastern Michigan Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 5% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 95% 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 Eastern Michigan since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at Eastern Michigan 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 Eastern Michigan University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	33
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Eastern Michigan Early Childhood Education Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 6% of child development master's degrees went to men and 94% went to women.

Of the students who received a child development master's degree from Eastern Michigan, 75% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	12
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching
• Online Educator/Online Teaching
• Secondary Education
• 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 MI, the home state for Eastern Michigan University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Preschool Teachers	9,270	$35,010
Kindergarten Teachers	1,450	$59,140

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 Dwight Burdette under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.