Early Childhood Education at Northwest Florida State College

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

NWFSC is located in Niceville, Florida and approximately 5,004 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.

NWFSC Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

• Associate’s Degree in Child development
• Bachelor’s Degree in Child development

Online Classes Are Available at NWFSC

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.

For those who are interested in distance learning, NWFSC does offer online courses in child development for the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree
• Bachelor’s Degree

NWFSC Early Childhood Education Rankings

The child development major at NWFSC 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 NWFSC

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

NWFSC Early Childhood Education Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 13% of child development associate's degrees went to men and 88% went to women.

NWFSC does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in child development graduates 4% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Northwest Florida State 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	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

NWFSC 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 60% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at NWFSC 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 Northwest Florida State College with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	15
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Related Majors

• 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 Northwest Florida State 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.