Early Childhood Education at University of Northern Iowa

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

UNI is located in Cedar Falls, Iowa and has a total student population of 9,507.

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.

UNI Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at UNI

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

• Master’s Degree

UNI Early Childhood Education Rankings

The child development major at UNI 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 UNI

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

UNI 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.

About 94% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at UNI 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 Northern Iowa with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	45
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

UNI Early Childhood Education Master’s Program

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

Of the students who received a child development master's degree from UNI, 100% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

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

Related Majors

• Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education & Teaching
• 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 IA, the home state for University of Northern Iowa.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
Preschool Teachers	4,770	$27,030
Kindergarten Teachers	800	$53,200

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 Feddacheenee under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.