2025 Best Child Development Associate Degree Schools
3Colleges in the United States
776Associate Degrees
Child Development is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #140 most popular associate degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of child development. Combined, these schools handed out 776 associate degrees in child development to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Child Development School for Your Associate Degree
The child development associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality child development program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on child development students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other child development students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized child development related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for child development students working on their associate degree.
The child development school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Child Development Associate Degree Schools.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Child Development in the United States
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in child development.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).