2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Early Childhood and Family Studies

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 259 people earned their degree in early childhood and family studies, making the major the 741st most popular in the United States.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 7 early childhood and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in early childhood and family studies. That schools that top this list have a program in early childhood and family studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree early childhood and family studies students.

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Early Childhood and Family Studies

1

Wayne County Community College District
Detroit, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wayne County Community College District. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major. WCCCD is a fairly large public school situated in Detroit, Michigan. It awarded 6 associates’s early childhood and family studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Full WCCCD Early Childhood and Family Studies Report

2

Rose State College
Midwest City, Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rose State College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major. Located in Midwest City, Oklahoma, this medium-sized public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified associates’s early childhood and family studies students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Early Childhood and Family Studies at Rose State College

3

Modesto Junior College
Modesto, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Modesto Junior College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major list. Modesto Junior College is a public institution located in Modesto, California. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Early Childhood and Family Studies at Modesto Junior College

3

Eastern University
Saint Davids, Pennsylvania

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Early Childhood and Family Studies Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern University landed the #3 spot on the list. This small school is located in Saint Davids, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 8 associates’s early childhood and family studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Early Childhood and Family Studies at EU

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.