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. Of the 10,102 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of California - Los Angeles in 2021, 432 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.

UCLA Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

UCLA Child Development & Psychology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks child development programs across the country. The following shows how UCLA performed in these rankings.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	9

Earnings of UCLA Child Development Graduates

The median salary of child development students who receive their bachelor's degree at UCLA is $24,474. 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 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

Of the 432 child development students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from UCLA, about 27% were men and 73% were 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 5% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 25% 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.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	175
Black or African American	21
Hispanic or Latino	69
White	124
International Students	10
Other Races/Ethnicities	33

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

Related Majors

• General 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 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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Nikhil Kulkarni under License

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