Child Development is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #239 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Michigan to determine which ones were the best for child development students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 236 degrees in child development during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of child development school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for child development schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Child Development Schools in Michigan ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the child development degrees they offer, see the list below.
Any student who is interested in child development needs to look into Michigan State University. Located in the small city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #74 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Michigan State is a great university overall.
There were approximately 24 child development students who graduated with this degree at Michigan State in the most recent data year.
Western Michigan University is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in child development. Located in the small city of Kalamazoo, WMU is a public university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #335 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means WMU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 41 child development students who graduated with this degree at WMU in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in child development has to look into Central Michigan University. Central Michigan is a fairly large public university located in the distant town of Mount Pleasant. This university ranks 10th out of 57 schools for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were roughly 105 child development students who graduated with this degree at Central Michigan in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat Baker College if you wish to pursue a degree in child development. Located in the distant town of Owosso, Baker College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 44th out of 57 colleges for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were about 31 child development students who graduated with this degree at Baker College in the most recent data year.
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).
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Your choice of child development school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for child development schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
