2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
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In 2021-2022, 4,413 people earned their degree in child development, making the major the 239th most popular in the United States.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 250 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,038 and $47,245 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in child development. That schools that top this list have a program in child development in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Child Development in the Middle Atlantic Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Towson University landed the #1 spot on the list. Towson, Maryland is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s child development degrees to 16 students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Child Development at Towson University
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rochester landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Rochester, New York, and it awarded 3 masters’s child development degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full University of Rochester Child Development Report
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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
- *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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