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Child Development & Psychology at Dartmouth College

Child Development & Psychology at Dartmouth College

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

Dartmouth is located in Hanover, New Hampshire and approximately 6,292 students attend the school each year.

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.

Dartmouth Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

Dartmouth Child Development & Psychology Rankings

The child development major at Dartmouth 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 Dartmouth

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

Dartmouth Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

71% Women
37% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 29% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 71% 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 Dartmouth since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

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About 55% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at Dartmouth 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 Dartmouth College with a bachelor's in child development.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 6
Black or African American 3
Hispanic or Latino 4
White 28
International Students 3
Other Races/Ethnicities 7

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

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Experimental Psychology 54

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 NH, the home state for Dartmouth College.

Occupation Jobs in NH Average Salary in NH
Managers 950 $123,580
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists 420 $84,270
Psychology Professors 300 $89,780
Psychologists 30 $98,410

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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