Early Childhood Education at University of Massachusetts - Boston

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

UMass Boston is located in Boston, Massachusetts and approximately 16,259 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 76 child development majors received their bachelor's degree from UMass Boston.

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.

UMass Boston Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development
• Doctorate Degree in Child development

UMass Boston Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at UMass Boston 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 UMass Boston 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 Doctor’s Degree Schools	5
Best Early Childhood Education Doctor’s Degree Schools	6
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Doctor’s Degree Schools	6
Best Value Early Childhood Education Doctor’s Degree Schools	7
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	30
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Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	155
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Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	361
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	383
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	486
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	535

Child development Student Demographics at UMass Boston

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

UMass Boston Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 76 child development majors earned their bachelor's degree from UMass Boston. Of these graduates, 11% were men and 89% were women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 4% men. So male students are more repesented at UMass Boston since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 9% more racial-ethnic minorities in its child development bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Massachusetts - Boston with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	12
Black or African American	13
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	30
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

UMass Boston also has a doctoral program available in child development. In 2021, 3 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• 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 MA, the home state for University of Massachusetts - Boston.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Preschool Teachers	16,360	$39,180
Kindergarten Teachers	3,020	$75,510

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 Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.