Child Development & Psychology at Brown University

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

Brown is located in Providence, Rhode Island and has a total student population of 9,948. Of the 1,987 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Brown University in 2021, 71 of them were child development and psychology majors.

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.

Brown Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development
• Doctorate Degree in Child Development

Brown Child Development & Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at Brown compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 Brown 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 Popular Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	44
	52
Best Value Child Development & Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools	64

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in child development from Brown. This is the #103 most popular school for child development master’s degree candidates in the country.

How Much Do Child Development Graduates from Brown Make?

The median salary of child development students who receive their bachelor's degree at Brown is $37,636. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 22% higher than the national average of $30,859 for all child development bachelor's degree recipients.

Child Development Student Demographics at Brown

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

Brown Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 71 child development students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Brown, about 23% were men and 77% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 9% 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 Brown University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	10
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	27
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

Brown also has a doctoral program available in child development. In 2021, 2 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

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 RI, the home state for Brown University.

Occupation	Jobs in RI	Average Salary in RI
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	880	$83,030
Managers	830	$114,660
Psychology Professors	140	$93,080
Psychologists	90	$73,080

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 Ad Meskens under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.