Early Childhood Education at Great Basin College

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

Great Basin College is located in Elko, Nevada and approximately 3,772 students attend the school each year.

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.

Great Basin College Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Undergrad Certificate in Child development (1 - 4 Years)
• Associate’s Degree in Child development
• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

Online Classes Are Available at Great Basin College

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Great Basin College offers distance education options for child development at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree
• Bachelor’s Degree

Great Basin College Early Childhood Education Rankings

The child development major at Great Basin College 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 Great Basin College

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the child development majors at Great Basin College.

Great Basin College Early Childhood Education Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 0% of child development associate's degrees went to men and 100% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Great Basin College with a associate's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	12
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Great Basin College Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 0% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 100% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 4% 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 Great Basin College with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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 NV, the home state for Great Basin College.

Occupation	Jobs in NV	Average Salary in NV
Kindergarten Teachers	1,500	$56,280
Preschool Teachers	1,220	$32,540

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 Visitor7 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.