Child Development & Psychology at Carleton College

What traits are you looking for in a child development school? To help you decide if Carleton College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's child development program.

Carleton is located in Northfield, Minnesota and has a total student population of 1,940. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 35 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from Carleton.

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.

Carleton Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

Carleton Child Development & Psychology Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The child development major at Carleton 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 Schools	24
Most Focused Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	24
Most Popular Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	85
Most Popular Child Development & Psychology Schools	99

Child Development Student Demographics at Carleton

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

Carleton Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 35 child development majors earned their bachelor's degree from Carleton. Of these graduates, 34% were men and 66% were women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 22% men. So male students are more repesented at Carleton since its program graduates 12% more men than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	16
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Carleton also has a doctoral program available in child development. In 2021, 0 student 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 MN, the home state for Carleton College.

Occupation	Jobs in MN	Average Salary in MN
Managers	9,350	$128,590
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	3,220	$85,860
Psychology Professors	710	$86,380
Psychologists	440	$93,310

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 Dogs1337 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.