Early Childhood Education at Southern Connecticut State University

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

SCSU is located in New Haven, Connecticut and approximately 9,331 students attend the school each year. Of the 164 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Southern Connecticut State University in 2021, 37 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.

SCSU Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

SCSU Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at SCSU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The child development major at SCSU 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	86
	335
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	338
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	341
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	465
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	507
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	516

Child development Student Demographics at SCSU

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

SCSU Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 37 child development students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from SCSU, about 3% were men and 97% were women.

About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at SCSU 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 Southern Connecticut State University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	27
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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

Related Majors

• Elementary Education

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 CT, the home state for Southern Connecticut State University.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT
Preschool Teachers	5,690	$43,350
Kindergarten Teachers	1,450	$77,220

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 Southern Connecticut State University under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.