Early Childhood Education at San Francisco State University

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

SFSU is located in San Francisco, California and approximately 27,349 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 252 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from SFSU.

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.

SFSU Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

SFSU Early Childhood Education Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks child development programs across the country. The following shows how SFSU performed in these rankings.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The child development major at SFSU 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	6
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Graduate Certificate Schools	6
	6
Best Value Early Childhood Education Graduate Certificate Schools	13
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	15
Best Early Childhood Education Graduate Certificate Schools	15
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Graduate Certificate Schools	18
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	99
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	142
	148
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	200
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	217
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	246

Child development Student Demographics at SFSU

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

SFSU Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 9% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 91% went to women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 4% men. So male students are more repesented at SFSU since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 37% 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 San Francisco State University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	77
Black or African American	16
Hispanic or Latino	98
White	30
International Students	10
Other Races/Ethnicities	21

SFSU 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

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 CA, the home state for San Francisco State University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Preschool Teachers	52,950	$37,850
Kindergarten Teachers	11,580	$69,690

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 Briantrejo under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.