Child Development & Psychology at St Olaf College

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

St. Olaf is located in Northfield, Minnesota and approximately 2,953 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 74 students received a bachelor's degree in child development from St. Olaf.

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.

St. Olaf Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

St. Olaf Child Development & Psychology Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The child development major at St. Olaf 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	16
Best Child Development & Psychology Schools	43
Most Popular Child Development & Psychology Schools	49
Best Value Child Development & Psychology Schools	152

Child Development Student Demographics at St. Olaf

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

St. Olaf Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 74 students earned a bachelor's degree in child development from St. Olaf. About 85% of these graduates were women and the other 15% were men.

About 58% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at St. Olaf 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 St Olaf College with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	8
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	43
International Students	10
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

St. Olaf 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 MN, the home state for St Olaf 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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Daniel Edwins a.k.a. Webmoof of English Wikipedia under License

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