Early Childhood Education at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

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

SRU is located in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania and approximately 8,860 students attend the school each year. Of the 171 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania in 2021, 39 of them were early childhood education majors.

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.

SRU Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

SRU Early Childhood Education Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks child development programs across the country. The following shows how SRU 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 SRU 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	54
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	152
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	213
	295

Child development Student Demographics at SRU

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

SRU Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

The child development program at SRU awarded 39 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 10% of these degrees went to men with the other 90% going to women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 4% men. So male students are more repesented at SRU since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

About 82% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at SRU 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 Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	32
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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

Related Majors

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 Slippery Rock 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 Blackngold29 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.