Child Development & Psychology at Mount St Mary’s University

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

The Mount is located in Emmitsburg, Maryland and approximately 2,560 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 28 child development majors received their bachelor's degree from The Mount.

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.

The Mount Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

The Mount Child Development & Psychology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks child development programs across the country. The following shows how The Mount 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 The Mount 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	54
Most Focused Child Development & Psychology Schools	57
Best Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	83
Best Value Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	107
Best Child Development & Psychology Schools	129

Earnings of The Mount Child Development Graduates

The median salary of child development students who receive their bachelor's degree at The Mount is $32,282. This is 5% higher than $30,859, which is the national average for all child development bachelor's degree recipients.

Child Development Student Demographics at The Mount

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the child development majors at Mount St Mary’s University.

The Mount Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 21% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 79% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 11% 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 Mount St Mary's University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	9
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	13
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

The Mount 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 MD, the home state for Mount St Mary's 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 Bobak Ha’Eri under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.