Child Development & Psychology at Johns Hopkins University

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

Johns Hopkins is located in Baltimore, Maryland and approximately 28,890 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,847 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in 2021, 81 of them were child development and psychology majors.

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.

Johns Hopkins Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development
• Master’s Degree in Child Development
• Doctorate Degree in Child Development

Johns Hopkins Child Development & Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at Johns Hopkins compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The child development major at Johns Hopkins 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 Popular Child Development & Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools	40

In 2021, 5 students received their master’s degree in child development from Johns Hopkins. This makes it the #65 most popular school for child development master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 7 students who received their doctoral degrees in child development, making the school the #41 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Child Development Student Demographics at Johns Hopkins

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

Johns Hopkins Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

The child development program at Johns Hopkins awarded 81 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 27% of these degrees went to men with the other 73% going to women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 22% men. So male students are more repesented at Johns Hopkins since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 20% 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 Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	21
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	17
White	23
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Johns Hopkins Child Development & Psychology Master’s Program

Of the 5 child development students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from Johns Hopkins, about 20% were men and 80% were women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a master's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	1
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Johns Hopkins also has a doctoral program available in child development. In 2021, 7 students 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 MD, the home state for Johns Hopkins University.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Managers	14,450	$122,050
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	2,090	$79,820
Psychologists	630	$112,330
Psychology Professors	430	$87,850

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 Lester Spence under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.