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Early Childhood Education at Howard Community College

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

HCC is located in Columbia, Maryland and approximately 9,566 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.

HCC Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

  • Associate’s Degree in Child development

HCC Early Childhood Education Rankings

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Child development Student Demographics at HCC

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

HCC Early Childhood Education Associate’s Program

69% Women
54% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 31% of child development associate's degrees went to men and 69% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in child development only graduates about 4% men each year. The program at HCC may seem more male-friendly since it graduates 27% more women than average.

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HCC does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in child development graduates 10% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 4
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 6
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

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 MD, the home state for Howard Community College.

Occupation Jobs in MD Average Salary in MD
Preschool Teachers 9,400 $38,440
Kindergarten Teachers 2,610 $67,170

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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