Early Childhood Education
Blue Mountain Community College
Public · Community college
The early-childhood program serves people preparing to work with children from birth through age eight. Coursework is offered online; confirm placement and observation requirements where you live.
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Preparation, time and schedule
Before you apply
Review writing placement, child-development courses and practical observation requirements.
Your complete timeline
Online AAS; confirm practicum arrangements. Prior credits, prerequisite placement and course availability can change your personal completion date.
Plan around the schedule
Online coursework; confirm practical attendance. Ask for the actual days, start times and required travel from Pendleton. Online coursework does not necessarily make laboratories or placements remote.
Application and selection
Use the official Early Childhood Education page to review the current entry checklist. Ask whether a separate department application, selection process or cohort start applies before committing to enrollment.
Details checked September 15, 2026. Confirm current requirements with the provider.
Questions to take to an advisor
Which preparation, timetable and complete budget apply to my Early Childhood Education plan?
- Which required courses or placements are offered only once per year?
- Can you give me a written estimate covering every required term and practical expense?
- Which employment, transfer or licensing requirements remain after this award?
Published program length is not a personal completion estimate. Transfer credits, prerequisites, selection and course availability can change the timeline.
After the program
Early-childhood employment requirements depend on the setting and role. This award alone is not a K–12 teaching license.
Cost and outcomes
Published base; complete personal budget still needed
Add program-specific fees, books, tools or supplies, exams, prerequisite study, travel and living expenses to the published base below. Your final cost depends on your course plan and financial aid.
Published tuition or budget base
2026-27 resident tuition is $127 per credit, before required fees and program-specific charges.
Official tuition and cost information ↗ · Checked September 16, 2026
A tuition rate or annual allowance is not a complete program price. Confirm your residency, course load, program fees and financial aid before comparing costs.
Open the cost planner →Exact-program earnings are not separately identified.
Published related-field earnings are available below. This field can include several programs; an exact-program outcome has not been separately verified.
Related-field graduate earnings
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods · Associate degree
Blue Mountain Community College. Graduating cohorts: All available cohorts combined. This published field group (CIP 13.12) can combine several programs and campuses. We selected it as related context; it is not a verified result for this exact program.
Census combines all available graduating cohorts for this institution, credential and field. Follow-up figures may cover different sets of graduates; differences are not a measure of the same group’s earnings growth.
- $34,840 median annual earnings 1 year after graduation
Amounts are in 2023 dollars. Census PSEO covers graduates meeting its earnings and employment-attachment rules; it excludes noncompleters and many self-employed or low-attachment workers. These are historical outcomes, not starting-pay estimates or a forecast.
Census PSEO Oregon data, 2026 Q2 (CSV download) ↗
Population, methods and limitations ↗ · Checked September 16, 2026