2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Child Development in South Carolina

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Child Development is the 239th most popular major in the country with 4,641 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across South Carolina, there were 56 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 39 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,293 and $28,603 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in South Carolina” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in child development. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their child development program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in South Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in South Carolina”.

Top 5 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Child Development in South Carolina

1

Converse College
Spartanburg, South Carolina

#19 overall quality in South Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Converse College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in South Carolina list. Located in Spartanburg, South Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 27 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s child development students in 2020-2021.

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2

Voorhees College
Denmark, South Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Voorhees College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in South Carolina. Voorhees College is located in Denmark, South Carolina and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 bachelors’s child development degrees to qualified students.

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3

Charleston Southern University
Charleston, South Carolina

#21 overall quality in South Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Charleston Southern University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in South Carolina list. Located in Charleston, South Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s child development students in 2020-2021.

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4

Bob Jones University
Greenville, South Carolina

#14 overall quality in South Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bob Jones University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in South Carolina. Bob Jones University is a small school located in Greenville, South Carolina that handed out 2 bachelors’s child development degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. 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%.

Read full report on Child Development at Bob Jones University

5

Claflin University
Orangeburg, South Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Claflin University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in South Carolina. Claflin is located in Orangeburg, South Carolina and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s child development degrees to qualified students.

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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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