Early Childhood Education at Lake Erie College

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

LEC is located in Painesville, Ohio and approximately 949 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 9 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from LEC.

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.

LEC Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

LEC Early Childhood Education Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks child development programs across the country. The following shows how LEC performed in these rankings.

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 LEC 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 Graduate Certificate Schools	34
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Graduate Certificate Schools	34
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	65
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	217
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	277
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	585

Child development Student Demographics at LEC

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

LEC Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 9 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in child development from LEC in 2021, 0% were men and 100% were women.

About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at LEC 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 Lake Erie College with a bachelor's in child development.

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

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

Related Majors

• Secondary 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 OH, the home state for Lake Erie College.

Occupation	Jobs in OH	Average Salary in OH
Preschool Teachers	15,390	$29,020
Kindergarten Teachers	2,890	$59,750

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 User:Dkocan under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.