Child Development & Psychology at Swarthmore College

If you are interested in studying child development and psychology, you may want to check out the program at Swarthmore College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Swarthmore is located in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania and approximately 1,437 students attend the school each year. Of the 481 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College 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.

Swarthmore Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

Swarthmore Child Development & Psychology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks child development programs across the country. The following shows how Swarthmore 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 Swarthmore 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	49
Most Popular Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	107

Child Development Student Demographics at Swarthmore

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

Swarthmore Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 22 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in child development from Swarthmore in 2021, 18% were men and 82% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% 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 Swarthmore College with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Swarthmore 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 PA, the home state for Swarthmore College.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Managers	11,060	$126,290
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	4,440	$83,610
Psychology Professors	2,130	$89,300
Psychologists	460	$87,940

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 Nelson Pavlosky under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.