Early Childhood Education at University of Louisiana at Lafayette

If you plan to study early childhood education, take a look at what University of Louisiana at Lafayette has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UL Lafayette is located in Lafayette, Louisiana and approximately 16,450 students attend the school each year. Of the 271 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2021, 19 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.

UL Lafayette Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

UL Lafayette Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at UL Lafayette 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 UL Lafayette 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 Graduate Certificate Schools	34
	126
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	169
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	181
	209
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	318
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	335

Child development Student Demographics at UL Lafayette

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

UL Lafayette Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 19 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in child development from UL Lafayette. About 0% were men and 100% were women.

About 89% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at UL Lafayette 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 University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	17
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching
• Teacher Education
• Secondary Education
• 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 LA, the home state for University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Occupation	Jobs in LA	Average Salary in LA
Preschool Teachers	1,980	$32,290
Kindergarten Teachers	820	$50,540

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 Billy Hathorn under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.