Early Childhood Education at Southern Wesleyan University

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

SWU is located in Central, South Carolina and approximately 1,345 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 10 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from SWU.

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.

SWU Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

SWU Early Childhood Education Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks child development programs across the country. The following shows how SWU performed in these rankings.

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 SWU 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 Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	117
	251
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	253
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	263
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	274
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	315
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	369
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	448
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	566

Child development Student Demographics at SWU

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

SWU Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 20% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 80% went to women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 4% men. So male students are more repesented at SWU since its program graduates 16% more men than average.

About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at SWU 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 Wesleyan University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	8
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

SWU 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
• Teacher Development & Methodology

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 SC, the home state for Southern Wesleyan University.

Occupation	Jobs in SC	Average Salary in SC
Preschool Teachers	5,940	$28,940
Kindergarten Teachers	2,120	$52,540

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 Robert Thall under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.