Early Childhood Education at University of North Florida

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

UNF is located in Jacksonville, Florida and approximately 16,926 students attend the school each year. Of the 153 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of North Florida in 2021, 35 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.

UNF Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

Online Classes Are Available at UNF

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

UNF does offer online education options in child development for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

UNF Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at UNF compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The child development major at UNF 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 Online Early Childhood Education Graduate Certificate Schools	9
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Graduate Certificate Schools	34
	70
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	99
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	196
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	240
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	295
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	661

Child development Student Demographics at UNF

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

UNF Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 35 child development majors earned their bachelor's degree from UNF. Of these graduates, 6% were men and 94% were women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 4% men. So male students are more repesented at UNF since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

About 69% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at UNF 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 North Florida with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	24
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

UNF 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
• 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 FL, the home state for University of North Florida.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
Preschool Teachers	25,940	$27,990
Kindergarten Teachers	10,680	$50,400

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 The222 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.