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Child Development & Psychology at Bowdoin College

Child Development & Psychology at Bowdoin College

If you plan to study child development & psychology, take a look at what Bowdoin College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Bowdoin is located in Brunswick, Maine and approximately 1,777 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.

Bowdoin Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

Bowdoin Child Development & Psychology Rankings

The child development major at Bowdoin 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 Bowdoin

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

Bowdoin Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

72% Women
28% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 28% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 72% 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 Bowdoin since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

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About 72% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at Bowdoin are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 21
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 6

Concentrations Within Child Development & Psychology

If you plan to be a child development major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Bowdoin College. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Other Research & Experimental Psychology 23

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 ME, the home state for Bowdoin College.

Occupation Jobs in ME Average Salary in ME
Managers 1,380 $96,570
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists 290 $75,620
Psychology Professors 180 $73,000
Psychologists 60 $82,790

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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