Early Childhood Education at Ohio University - Athens Campus

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

OHIO Athens is located in Athens, Ohio and approximately 25,714 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 151 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from OHIO Athens.

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.

OHIO Athens Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

OHIO Athens Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at OHIO Athens 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 OHIO Athens 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 Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	15
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	34
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	197
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	404
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	407
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	495

Child development Student Demographics at OHIO Athens

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

OHIO Athens Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 151 child development majors earned their bachelor's degree from OHIO Athens. Of these graduates, 3% were men and 97% were women.

About 95% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at OHIO Athens 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 Ohio University - Athens Campus with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	143
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

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

Related Majors

• College/Postsecondary/University Teaching
• Secondary Education
• 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 Ohio University - Athens Campus.

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
• Image Credit: By Robert Chriss under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.