Child Development & Psychology at Dartmouth College

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

Dartmouth is located in Hanover, New Hampshire and approximately 6,292 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 54 child development majors received their bachelor's degree from Dartmouth.

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 following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at Dartmouth 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 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
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Best Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	4
Most Popular Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	57
Most Popular Child Development & Psychology Schools	64
Most Focused Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	80
Most Focused Child Development & Psychology Schools	84

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

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 54 child development majors earned their bachelor's degree from Dartmouth. Of these graduates, 26% were men and 74% were 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 4% more men than average.

About 63% 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.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	34
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Dartmouth 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 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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Kane5187 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.