Early Childhood Education at Florida Gateway College

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

FGC is located in Lake City, Florida and approximately 3,018 students attend the school each year.

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.

FGC Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Basic Certificate in Child development (Less Than 1 Year)
• Associate’s Degree in Child development
• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

Online Classes Are Available at FGC

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? FGC offers distance education options for child development at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree
• Bachelor’s Degree

FGC Early Childhood Education Rankings

The child development major at FGC 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 FGC

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

FGC Early Childhood Education Associate’s Program

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

FGC does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in child development graduates 11% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Florida Gateway College with a associate's in child development.

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

FGC 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 75% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at FGC 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 Florida Gateway College with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	12
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

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 Florida Gateway College.

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.