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Child Development & Psychology at Macalester College

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Child Development & Psychology at Macalester College

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

Macalester is located in Saint Paul, Minnesota and approximately 2,049 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 33 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from Macalester.

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.

Macalester Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

Macalester Child Development & Psychology Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The child development major at Macalester 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 38

Child Development Student Demographics at Macalester

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

Macalester Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

88% Women
33% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
The child development program at Macalester awarded 33 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 12% of these degrees went to men with the other 88% going to women.

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About 52% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at Macalester 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 Macalester College with a bachelor's in child development.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 2
Black or African American 2
Hispanic or Latino 5
White 17
International Students 5
Other Races/Ethnicities 2

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

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 MN, the home state for Macalester College.

Occupation Jobs in MN Average Salary in MN
Managers 9,350 $128,590
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists 3,220 $85,860
Psychology Professors 710 $86,380
Psychologists 440 $93,310

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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