2025 Best Child Development & Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in
child development & psychology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #37 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.
College Factual looked at 6 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Child Development & Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 458 bachelor's degrees in child development & psychology to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Child Development & Psychology School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The child development bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 & psychology students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of child development & psychology students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
- 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.
- Student Debt - How much debt child development & psychology students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized child development & psychology related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for child development & psychology students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Child Development & Psychology Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Child Development & Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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