Early Childhood Education at Metropolitan State University

If you are interested in studying early childhood education, you may want to check out the program at Metropolitan State University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Metro State is located in Saint Paul, Minnesota and approximately 7,552 students attend the school each year. Of the 61 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Metropolitan State University in 2021, 13 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.

Metro State Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

Metro State Early Childhood Education Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks child development programs across the country. The following shows how Metro State 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 Metro 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 Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	9
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	49
	54
	108
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	117
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	159
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	230
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	321
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	503
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	696

Child development Student Demographics at Metro State

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

Metro State Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 13 students earned a bachelor's degree in child development from Metro State. About 92% of these graduates were women and the other 8% were men.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 41% 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 Metropolitan State University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Metro 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

• 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 Metropolitan State University.

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 Tony Webster under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.