Early Childhood Education at Messiah University

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

Messiah is located in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania and approximately 3,370 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 19 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from Messiah.

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.

Messiah Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

Messiah Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at Messiah 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 Messiah 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	22
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Graduate Certificate Schools	34
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Graduate Certificate Schools	34
	70
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	149
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	415

Child development Student Demographics at Messiah

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

Messiah Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 19 students earned a bachelor's degree in child development from Messiah. About 95% of these graduates were women and the other 5% were men.

About 95% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at Messiah 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 Messiah University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	18
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching
• 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 PA, the home state for Messiah University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Preschool Teachers	13,480	$29,250
Kindergarten Teachers	3,350	$62,510

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 Badagnani under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.