Child Development & Psychology at Brigham Young University - Provo

If you are interested in studying child development and psychology, you may want to check out the program at Brigham Young University - Provo. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

BYU is located in Provo, Utah and approximately 36,461 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 37 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from BYU.

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

Each year, College Factual ranks child development programs across the country. The following shows how BYU performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Child Development & Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools	89
Most Popular Child Development & Psychology Schools	91

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

Of the 37 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Child Development & Psychology from BYU in 2020-2021, 30% were men and 70% were 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 8% more men than average.

About 78% 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.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	29
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

BYU also has a doctoral program available in child development. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology
• General Psychology

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Mwilson3 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.