Child Development & Psychology at Grinnell College

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

Grinnell is located in Grinnell, Iowa and has a total student population of 1,493. In 2021, 30 child development majors received their bachelor's degree from Grinnell.

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.

Grinnell Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

Grinnell Child Development & Psychology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks child development programs across the country. The following shows how Grinnell performed in these rankings.

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 Grinnell 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
Most Focused Child Development & Psychology Schools	33
Most Focused Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	33
Most Popular Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	91
Most Popular Child Development & Psychology Schools	105

Child Development Student Demographics at Grinnell

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

Grinnell Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 30 child development majors earned their bachelor's degree from Grinnell. Of these graduates, 20% were men and 80% were women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Grinnell College with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	12
International Students	9
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

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

Related Majors

• Other 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 Grinnell 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 Aureliusxv under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.