Child Development & Psychology at Niagara University

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

Niagara is located in Niagara University, New York and approximately 3,544 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 24 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from Niagara.

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.

Niagara Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

Niagara Child Development & Psychology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks child development programs across the country. The following shows how Niagara 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 Niagara 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	86
Most Focused Child Development & Psychology Schools	94
Best Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	103
	108
	182

Earnings of Niagara Child Development Graduates

The median salary of child development students who receive their bachelor's degree at Niagara is $28,915. This is less than $30,859, which is the national average of all child development majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Child Development Student Demographics at Niagara

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

Niagara Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 24 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Child Development & Psychology from Niagara in 2020-2021, 25% were men and 75% were women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 22% men. So male students are more repesented at Niagara since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

About 88% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at Niagara 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 Niagara University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	21
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Clinical, Counseling & Applied 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 NY, the home state for Niagara University.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Managers	16,600	$124,160
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	11,370	$94,140
Psychology Professors	4,840	$99,690
Psychologists	480	$99,640

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 banderas under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.