Child Development & Psychology at Mount Holyoke College

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

Mt. Holyoke is located in South Hadley, Massachusetts and has a total student population of 2,040. Of the 628 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College in 2021, 61 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.

Mt. Holyoke Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

Mt. Holyoke Child Development & Psychology Rankings

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

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 Mt. Holyoke 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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools	7
Most Popular Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	50
Most Popular Child Development & Psychology Schools	58

Child Development Student Demographics at Mt. Holyoke

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

Mt. Holyoke Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 61 child development majors earned their bachelor's degree from Mt. Holyoke. Of these graduates, 0% were men and 100% were women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	27
International Students	14
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Mt. Holyoke also has a doctoral program available in child development. In 2021, 0 student 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 MA, the home state for Mount Holyoke College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Managers	8,660	$131,450
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	4,050	$86,490
Psychology Professors	1,490	$97,690
Psychologists	980	$83,550

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 Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.