2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 181 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in child development. That schools that top this list have a program in child development in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Child Development in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Towson University
Towson, Maryland

Top 25% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Towson University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Towson University is located in Towson, Maryland and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 masters’s child development degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Child Development at Towson University

2

University of Rochester
Rochester, New York

#25 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rochester. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. University of Rochester is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Rochester, New York. It awarded 1 masters’s child development degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% 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%.

Full University of Rochester Child Development Report

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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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