2025 Best Child Development & Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in New Jersey

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 reviewed 2 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of child development & psychology. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 519 bachelor's degrees in child development & psychology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

Jump to one of the following sections: * Our Methodology

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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

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on child development & psychology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other child development & psychology students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's 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.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for child development & psychology to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized child development & psychology related body.

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

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Child Development & Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in New Jersey list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Child Development & Psychology in New Jersey

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in child development & psychology.

Top New Jersey Schools for a Bachelor's in Child Development

1

Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ

455 Annual Graduates

Montclair State University is a good choice for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in child development & psychology. Montclair State is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Montclair.More information about a bachelor’s in child development & psychology from Montclair State University

2

Centenary University
Hackettstown, NJ

14 Annual Graduates

$27,933 Median Starting Salary

Centenary University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in child development & psychology. Centenary is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Hackettstown.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the child development program earn about $27,933 for their early career.

More information about a bachelor’s in child development & psychology from Centenary University

Best Child Development & Psychology Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Child Development & Psychology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	275	1,170
Pennsylvania	274	819
Maryland	207	109
Delaware	130	203
District of Columbia	126	167

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Rankings in Majors Related to Child Development

One of 24 majors within the Psychology area of study, Child Development & Psychology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Child Development Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Other Research & Experimental Psychology	455
Experimental Psychology	64

Majors Similar to Child Development

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Psychology	3,096
Other Psychology	12
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	6

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). More about our data sources and methodologies.