Kentucky contains 22 schools that offer child day care programs. Berea College, the highest-ranking child day care school in KY, has a total student population of 1,548 and is the 203rd highest ranked school in America.
Child Day Care students from Kentucky schools who go on to become day care specialists, social workers, nannies, day care professionals, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 595,650 people working as child care workers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $20,940. Also, Child, family, and school social workers make on average $43,540 per year and there are about 277,670 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Kentucky alone, there are 7,420 employed child, family, and school social workers earning an average yearly salary of $37,450. Child care workers in this state earn $18,430/yr and there are 10,600 employed.
Also, within the child day care schools in Kentucky, the average student population is 2,555 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Aside from child day care, there are 2859 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,477 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,117, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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