Child Development & Psychology at Northwestern University

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

Northwestern is located in Evanston, Illinois and has a total student population of 22,603. Of the 2,722 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University in 2021, 22 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.

Northwestern Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

Northwestern Child Development & Psychology Rankings

The child development major at Northwestern 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.

Child Development Student Demographics at Northwestern

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

Northwestern Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 22 child development majors earned their bachelor's degree from Northwestern. Of these graduates, 32% were men and 68% were women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 22% men. So male students are more repesented at Northwestern since its program graduates 10% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 17% 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 Northwestern University with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	5
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• Other Psychology
• General Psychology
• 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 IL, the home state for Northwestern University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	4,700	$75,180
Psychology Professors	1,510	$87,880
Psychologists	260	$87,410

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 Madcoverboy at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.