Early Childhood Education at Mercer University

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

Mercer is located in Macon, Georgia and has a total student population of 9,006. In 2021, 23 child development majors received their bachelor's degree from Mercer.

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.

Mercer Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

Mercer Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at Mercer 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 Mercer 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	190
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	251
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	276
	317
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	359
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	636

Child development Student Demographics at Mercer

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

Mercer Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 23 child development majors earned their bachelor's degree from Mercer. Of these graduates, 9% were men and 91% were women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 4% men. So male students are more repesented at Mercer since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 17% more racial-ethnic minorities in its child development bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Mercer University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	14
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Mercer 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
• Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching
• Secondary Education
• 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 GA, the home state for Mercer University.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Preschool Teachers	14,430	$30,910
Kindergarten Teachers	4,720	$54,080

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 Korea2006 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.