2023 Most Well Attended Child Development Major in the New England Region for a Master’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$38,600
Avg Cost*
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Child Development Major in the New England Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 New England region, there were 183 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 31 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Child Development Major in the New England Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in child development. To top this list, a school must have a successful child development program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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The child development school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Well Attended Child Development Major in the New England Region for a Master’s”.
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Most Well Attended Child Development Major in the New England Region for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree child development students.
Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Child Development in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Child Development Major in the New England Region for a Master’s list. This large school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 17 masters’s child development degrees in 2020-2021.
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 school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Read full report on Child Development at Boston U
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Child Development Major in the New England Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Tufts University landed the #2 spot on the list. Medford, Massachusetts is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s child development degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. 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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Child Development at Tufts
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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
- *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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