Early Childhood Education at Iowa State University

What traits are you looking for in a child development school? To help you decide if Iowa State University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's child development program.

Iowa State is located in Ames, Iowa and approximately 31,822 students attend the school each year. Of the 312 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University in 2021, 24 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.

Iowa State Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

Iowa State Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at Iowa State 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 Iowa State 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
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	18
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	25
	56
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	143
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	198

Child development Student Demographics at Iowa State

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

Iowa State Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

The child development program at Iowa State awarded 24 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 0% of these degrees went to men with the other 100% going to women.

About 79% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at Iowa State 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 Iowa State University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	19
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Iowa State 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 Development & Methodology
• 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 IA, the home state for Iowa State University.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
Preschool Teachers	4,770	$27,030
Kindergarten Teachers	800	$53,200

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 Jamo2008 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.