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Child Development & Psychology at Colby College

Child Development & Psychology at Colby College

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

Colby is located in Waterville, Maine and has a total student population of 2,155.

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.

Colby Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

Colby Child Development & Psychology Rankings

The child development major at Colby 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 Colby

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

Colby Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

67% Women
44% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 33% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 67% 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 Colby since its program graduates 12% more men than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 2% 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 Colby College with a bachelor's in child development.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 3
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 4
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

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 Colby College. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Behavioral Neuroscience 20

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 Colby 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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