Early Childhood Education at Hunter College

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

Hunter is located in New York, New York and has a total student population of 24,052.

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.

Hunter Early Childhood Education Degrees Available

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

Hunter Early Childhood Education Rankings

Child development Student Demographics at Hunter

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

Hunter Early Childhood Education Master’s Program

95% Women

57% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 5% of child development master's degrees went to men and 95% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 4% men graduate in child development each year. Hunter does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 1% more men than average.

In the child development master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 57% of degree recipients. That is 11% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	16
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	15
White	25
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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 NY, the home state for Hunter College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Preschool Teachers	30,790	$48,630
Kindergarten Teachers	6,120	$79,410

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
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