Early Childhood Education at University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

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

UW - Whitewater is located in Whitewater, Wisconsin and has a total student population of 11,989. Of the 302 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Wisconsin - Whitewater in 2021, 59 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.

UW - Whitewater Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

UW - Whitewater Early Childhood Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at UW - Whitewater 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 UW - Whitewater 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
Best Value Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	31
Best Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	48
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	49
Best Early Childhood Education Schools	70
	109
Best Value Early Childhood Education Schools	111
Most Popular Early Childhood Education Schools	135
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	160
	184
Most Focused Early Childhood Education Schools	407

Child development Student Demographics at UW - Whitewater

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

UW - Whitewater Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 59 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in child development from UW - Whitewater in 2021, 2% were men and 98% were women.

About 90% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at UW - Whitewater 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 Wisconsin - Whitewater with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	53
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Teacher Development & Methodology
• 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 WI, the home state for University of Wisconsin - Whitewater.

Occupation	Jobs in WI	Average Salary in WI
Preschool Teachers	10,180	$26,550
Kindergarten Teachers	1,630	$57,340

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 Thebox193 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.