Child Development & Psychology at Cornell College

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

Cornell College is located in Mount Vernon, Iowa and has a total student population of 1,002. Of the 314 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Cornell College in 2021, 2 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.

Cornell College Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

Cornell College Child Development & Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at Cornell College 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 Cornell College 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
	87
Best Child Development & Psychology Schools	135
Most Focused Child Development & Psychology Schools	143
Best Value Child Development & Psychology Schools	191

Child Development Student Demographics at Cornell College

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

Cornell College Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 8% 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 Cornell College with a bachelor's in child development.

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

Cornell College 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 IA, the home state for Cornell College.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
Managers	2,880	$101,360
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	740	$85,260
Psychology Professors	430	$92,430

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 ArtisticAbode under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.