Early Childhood Education at University of Rhode Island

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

URI is located in Kingston, Rhode Island and has a total student population of 17,649. Of the 95 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Rhode Island in 2021, 12 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.

URI Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

URI Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at URI 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 URI 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 Graduate Certificate Schools	34
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Graduate Certificate Schools	34
	171
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	242
	274
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	275
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	335
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	402
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	406
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	512
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	526
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	820

Child development Student Demographics at URI

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

URI Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 0% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 100% went to women.

About 83% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at URI 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 Rhode Island with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	10
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• 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 RI, the home state for University of Rhode Island.

Occupation	Jobs in RI	Average Salary in RI
Preschool Teachers	1,120	$32,400
Kindergarten Teachers	560	$65,530

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 Tnricci under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.