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Child Development & Psychology at Amherst College

Child Development & Psychology at Amherst College

Every child development & psychology school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the child development program at Amherst College stacks up to those at other schools.

Amherst is located in Amherst, Massachusetts and approximately 1,745 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Child Development & Psychology section at the bottom of this page.

Amherst Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

Amherst Child Development & Psychology Rankings

The child development major at Amherst is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Child Development & Psychology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Child Development Student Demographics at Amherst

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the child development majors at Amherst College.

Amherst Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

61% Women
50% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 39% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 61% went to women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 22% men. So male students are more repesented at Amherst since its program graduates 18% more men than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 8% more racial-ethnic minorities in its child development bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Amherst College with a bachelor's in child development.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 6
Black or African American 13
Hispanic or Latino 11
White 26
International Students 3
Other Races/Ethnicities 7

Concentrations Within Child Development & Psychology

Child Development & Psychology majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Amherst College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Other Research & Experimental Psychology 37

Careers That Child Development Grads May Go Into

A degree in child development can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for Amherst College.

Occupation Jobs in MA Average Salary in MA
Managers 8,660 $131,450
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists 4,050 $86,490
Psychology Professors 1,490 $97,690
Psychologists 980 $83,550

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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