2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Early Childhood Education in South Carolina

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In 2020-2021, 32,920 people earned their degree in early childhood education, making the major the 34th most popular in the United States.

Across South Carolina, there were 539 early childhood education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 early childhood education graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,384 and $21,243 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Child development Major in South Carolina for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in early childhood education. To top this list, a school must have a successful early childhood education program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Child development Major in South Carolina for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Child development Major in South Carolina for an Associate”.

Top 2 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Early Childhood Education in South Carolina

1

Bob Jones University
Greenville, South Carolina

#14 overall quality in South Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bob Jones University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Child development Major in South Carolina for an Associate list. Located in Greenville, South Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 4 diplomas to qualified associates’s child development students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read more about Early Childhood Education at Bob Jones University

2

Clinton College
Rock Hill, South Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clinton College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Child development Major in South Carolina for an Associate list. Rock Hill, South Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s child development degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Early Childhood Education at Clinton College

• Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Early Childhood Education in the Southeast Region
• Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Early Childhood Education

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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