Early Childhood Education at Sandhills Community College

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

SCC is located in Pinehurst, North Carolina and has a total student population of 3,990.

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.

SCC Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

Basic Certificate in Child development (Less Than 1 Year)
Associate’s Degree in Child development

Online Classes Are Available at SCC

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? SCC offers distance education options for child development at the following degree levels:

SCC Early Childhood Education Rankings

Child development Student Demographics at SCC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the child development majors at Sandhills Community College.

SCC Early Childhood Education Associate’s Program

100% Women

94% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 0% of child development associate's degrees went to men and 100% went to women.

SCC does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in child development graduates 48% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Sandhills Community College with a associate's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	11
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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 NC, the home state for Sandhills Community College.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Preschool Teachers	16,110	$28,260
Kindergarten Teachers	3,320	$46,490

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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