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Early Childhood Education at University of Rhode Island

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.

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

Online Classes Are Available at URI

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.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? URI offers distance education options for child development at the following degree levels:

URI Early Childhood Education 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.

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

92% Women
8% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 8% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 92% went to women.

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About 85% 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.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 0
White 11
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 2

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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