2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the Far Western US Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 4,641 people earned their degree in child development, making the major the 239th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 877 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in child development. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their child development program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree child development students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Child Development in the Far Western US Region

1

University of La Verne
La Verne, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of La Verne. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the Far Western US Region list. University of La Verne is a medium-sized school located in La Verne, California that handed out 24 masters’s child development degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Child Development at University of La Verne

2

Western Oregon University
Monmouth, Oregon

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Oregon University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the Far Western US Region list. Monmouth, Oregon is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s child development degrees to 25 students in 2020-2021.

Full Western Oregon University Child Development Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Child Development

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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