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Child Development & Psychology at Brigham Young University - Provo

Child Development & Psychology at Brigham Young University - Provo

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

BYU is located in Provo, Utah and approximately 36,461 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.

BYU Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

BYU Child Development & Psychology Rankings

The child development major at BYU 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 BYU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the child development majors at Brigham Young University - Provo.

BYU Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

75% Women
17% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 25% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 75% 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 BYU since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

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About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at BYU 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 Brigham Young University - Provo with a bachelor's in child development.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 4
Black or African American 2
Hispanic or Latino 23
White 191
International Students 8
Other Races/Ethnicities 12

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 Brigham Young University - Provo. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Other Research & Experimental Psychology 30
Personality Psychology 7

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 UT, the home state for Brigham Young University - Provo.

Occupation Jobs in UT Average Salary in UT
Managers 3,310 $102,290
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists 1,330 $80,920
Psychology Professors 240 $76,470
Psychologists 70 $86,340

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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