Early Childhood Education at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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

SIUC is located in Carbondale, Illinois and has a total student population of 11,366. Of the 265 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2021, 11 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.

SIUC Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

SIUC Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at SIUC 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 SIUC 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	66
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	172
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	174
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	237
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	546
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	792

Child development Student Demographics at SIUC

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

SIUC Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 11 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in child development from SIUC in 2021, 0% were men and 100% were women.

About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at SIUC 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 Illinois University Carbondale with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	8
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

SIUC 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 IL, the home state for Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Preschool Teachers	24,120	$31,500
Kindergarten Teachers	4,630	$55,660

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 Mark Jaroski under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.