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Child Development & Psychology at University of California - Los Angeles

Child Development & Psychology at University of California - Los Angeles

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

UCLA is located in Los Angeles, California and approximately 44,589 students attend the school each year.

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.

UCLA Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

UCLA Child Development & Psychology Rankings

The child development major at UCLA 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 UCLA

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

UCLA Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

72% Women
71% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 28% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 72% went to women. The typical child development bachelor's degree program is made up of only 22% men. So male students are more repesented at UCLA since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 29% 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 University of California - Los Angeles with a bachelor's in child development.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 175
Black or African American 17
Hispanic or Latino 73
White 108
International Students 5
Other Races/Ethnicities 34

Concentrations Within Child Development & Psychology

If you plan to be a child development major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at University of California - Los Angeles. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Behavioral Neuroscience 432

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 CA, the home state for University of California - Los Angeles.

Occupation Jobs in CA Average Salary in CA
Managers 66,300 $143,350
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists 17,310 $108,350
Psychology Professors 4,530 $117,990
Psychologists 2,080 $114,860

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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