Child Development & Psychology at Duke University

If you plan to study child development and psychology, take a look at what Duke University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Duke is located in Durham, North Carolina and approximately 16,172 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 131 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from Duke.

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.

Duke Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

Duke Child Development & Psychology Rankings

The child development major at Duke 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 Duke

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

Duke Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 131 child development students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Duke, about 21% were men and 79% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 1% 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 Duke University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	10
Black or African American	23
Hispanic or Latino	17
White	58
International Students	10
Other Races/Ethnicities	13

Duke also has a doctoral program available in child development. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• 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 NC, the home state for Duke University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Managers	11,990	$121,500
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	3,030	$77,470
Psychology Professors	1,020	$77,700

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 Bjoertvedt under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.