Early Childhood Education at Eastern Washington University

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

EWU is located in Cheney, Washington and approximately 12,349 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 23 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from EWU.

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.

EWU Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

EWU Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at EWU 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 EWU 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
	38
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	73
	79
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	102
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	128
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	674

Child development Student Demographics at EWU

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

EWU Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 23 students earned a bachelor's degree in child development from EWU. About 96% of these graduates were women and the other 4% were men.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 8% 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 Eastern Washington University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

EWU 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 WA, the home state for Eastern Washington University.

Occupation	Jobs in WA	Average Salary in WA
Preschool Teachers	11,050	$32,960
Kindergarten Teachers	7,870	$62,330

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 Ian Poellet under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.