Early Childhood Education at University of Nevada - Las Vegas

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

UNLV is located in Las Vegas, Nevada and approximately 31,142 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.

UNLV Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

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

UNLV Early Childhood Education Rankings

The child development major at UNLV 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 UNLV

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the child development majors at University of Nevada - Las Vegas.

UNLV Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 2% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 98% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 24% more racial-ethnic minorities in its child development bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Nevada - Las Vegas with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	9
Hispanic or Latino	19
White	15
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

UNLV Early Childhood Education Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 13% of child development master's degrees went to men and 88% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 4% men graduate in child development each year. UNLV does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 9% more men than average.

In the child development master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 50% of degree recipients. That is 4% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Nevada - Las Vegas with a master's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	10
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Related Majors

• Teacher Education
• 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 NV, the home state for University of Nevada - Las Vegas.

Occupation	Jobs in NV	Average Salary in NV
Kindergarten Teachers	1,500	$56,280
Preschool Teachers	1,220	$32,540

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 Stan Shebs under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.