2025 Best Child Development & Psychology Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts

a master's degree in child development & psychology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #80 out of 343 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Child Development & Psychology Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 131 master's degrees in child development & psychology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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 master'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 much debt child development & psychology students go into to obtain their master'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 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 master's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Child Development & Psychology Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts list, to help you choose the best school for you.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Child Development & Psychology in Massachusetts

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

Top Massachusetts Schools for a Master's in Child Development

1

Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA

84 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in child development & psychology has to take a look at Boston College. Boston College is a fairly large private not-for-profit college located in the small city of Chestnut Hill.More information about a master’s in child development & psychology from Boston College

2

University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Lowell, MA

10 Annual Graduates

University of Massachusetts - Lowell is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in child development & psychology. Located in the large suburb of Lowell, UMass Lowell is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in child development & psychology from University of Massachusetts - Lowell

Best Child Development & Psychology Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Child Development & Psychology Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Connecticut	153	47
Rhode Island	127	0
New Hampshire	108	0

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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
Developmental & Child Psychology	95
Experimental Psychology	24
Social Psychology	10
Other Research & Experimental Psychology	2

Most Popular Majors Related to Child Development

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	1,020
General Psychology	190
Other Psychology	9

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.