Early Childhood Education at Martin Luther College

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

MLC is located in New Ulm, Minnesota and approximately 968 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 23 child development majors received their bachelor's degree from MLC.

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.

MLC Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

MLC Early Childhood Education Rankings

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

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 MLC 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	8
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	26
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	34
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	40
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	100
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	149
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Child development Student Demographics at MLC

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

MLC Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 23 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education from MLC in 2020-2021, 0% were men and 100% were women.

About 96% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at MLC 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 Martin Luther 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	22
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

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 MN, the home state for Martin Luther College.

Occupation	Jobs in MN	Average Salary in MN
Preschool Teachers	8,180	$37,500
Kindergarten Teachers	3,440	$60,580

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 Bobak Ha’Eri under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.