Child Development & Psychology at Eastern Washington University

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

EWU is located in Cheney, Washington and approximately 12,349 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.

EWU Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

EWU Child Development & Psychology Rankings

The child development major at EWU 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 EWU

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

EWU Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

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 EWU since its program graduates 12% more men than average.

About 53% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at EWU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% 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 Eastern Washington University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	19
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Concentrations Within Child Development & Psychology

Child Development & Psychology majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Eastern Washington University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Developmental & Child Psychology	60

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 WA, the home state for Eastern Washington University.

Occupation	Jobs in WA	Average Salary in WA
Managers	11,280	$125,490
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	2,330	$73,840
Psychology Professors	860	$68,420
Psychologists	370	$102,760

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 Ian Poellet under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.