Early Childhood Education at Susquehanna University

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

Susquehanna is located in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania and approximately 2,241 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 24 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from Susquehanna.

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.

Susquehanna Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

Susquehanna Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at Susquehanna 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 Susquehanna 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	46
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	143
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	179
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	271
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	346
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	370
	371
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	396
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	544
	549

Child development Student Demographics at Susquehanna

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

Susquehanna Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 24 child development majors earned their bachelor's degree from Susquehanna. Of these graduates, 13% were men and 88% were women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 4% men. So male students are more repesented at Susquehanna since its program graduates 9% more men than average.

About 88% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at Susquehanna 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 Susquehanna University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	21
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Susquehanna 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 Susquehanna University.

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 Janey Apfelbaum under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.