Early Childhood Education at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

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

Ship is located in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania and approximately 6,130 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 52 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from Ship.

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.

Ship Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

Ship Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at Ship 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 Ship 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	21
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	51
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	56
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	58
	78
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	81
	149
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	154
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	187

Child development Student Demographics at Ship

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

Ship Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 52 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in child development from Ship in 2021, 8% were men and 92% were women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 4% men. So male students are more repesented at Ship since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

About 96% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at Ship 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 Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	50
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Ship 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 PA, the home state for Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Preschool Teachers	13,480	$29,250
Kindergarten Teachers	3,350	$62,510

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 Cgboeree under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.