2025 Best Child Development Bachelor's Degree Schools in Texas

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in child development, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #176 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Texas to determine which ones were the best for child development students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 156 bachelor's degrees in child development during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to child development students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other child development students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized child development related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for child development students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Child Development Schools

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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in Texas.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Child Development in Texas

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for child development students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Top Texas Schools for a Bachelor's in Child Development

1

Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX

34 Annual Graduates

Texas Tech University is a wonderful option for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in child development. Located in the city of Lubbock, Texas Tech is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in child development from Texas Tech University

2

Texas Woman's University
Denton, TX

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

69 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Texas Woman's University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in child development. TWU is a fairly large public university located in the city of Denton.More information about a bachelor’s in child development from Texas Woman’s University

Best Child Development Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Child Development Schools in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Oklahoma	377	21

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Child Development Related Rankings by Major

One of 10 majors within the Human Development & Family Studies area of study, Child Development has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Child Development

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Human Development & Family Studies	613
Early Childhood and Family Studies	91
Family & Community Services	27
Family Systems	4
Child Care & Support Services Management	4

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jsonin. More about our data sources and methodologies.