Early Childhood Education at Mount Vernon Nazarene University

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

MVNU is located in Mount Vernon, Ohio and has a total student population of 2,140. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 36 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from MVNU.

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.

MVNU Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

MVNU Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at MVNU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The child development major at MVNU 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	26
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	91
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	102
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	185
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	202
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	232
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	282
	321
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	341
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Child development Student Demographics at MVNU

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

MVNU Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 36 child development majors earned their bachelor's degree from MVNU. Of these graduates, 31% were men and 69% were women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 4% men. So male students are more repesented at MVNU since its program graduates 27% more men than average.

About 89% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at MVNU 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 Mount Vernon Nazarene University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	32
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

MVNU 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

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 Mount Vernon Nazarene University.

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.