Early Childhood Education at Grove City College

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

Grove City College is located in Grove City, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 2,277. Of the 92 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Grove City College in 2021, 34 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.

Grove City College Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

Grove City College Early Childhood Education Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The child development major at Grove City 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	29
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	100
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	118
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	249

Child development Student Demographics at Grove City College

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

Grove City College Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 34 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education from Grove City College in 2020-2021, 6% were men and 94% were women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 4% men. So male students are more repesented at Grove City College since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

About 94% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at Grove City College 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 Grove City College with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	32
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Grove City College also has a doctoral program available in child development. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Teacher Education
• Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching

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 PA, the home state for Grove City College.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Preschool Teachers	13,480	$29,250
Kindergarten Teachers	3,350	$62,510

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 Mark Schellhase under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.