by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Child Development Major for a Doctorate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Child Development is the 239th most popular major in the country with 4,641 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,260 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Child Development Major for a Doctorate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in child development. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in child development.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Child Development Major for a Doctorate” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for doctor’s degree child development students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Woman’s University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Child Development Major for a Doctorate list. TWU is a fairly large public school situated in Denton, Texas. It awarded 8 doctorate’s child development degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tufts University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Child Development Major for a Doctorate. Tufts is located in Medford, Massachusetts and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 doctorate’s child development degrees to qualified students.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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