Developmental & Child Psychology at University of California - San Diego

If you are interested in studying developmental & child psychology, you may want to check out the program at University of California - San Diego. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UCSD is located in La Jolla, California and approximately 39,576 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Developmental & Child Psychology section at the bottom of this page.

UCSD Developmental & Child Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Developmental and Child Psychology

UCSD Developmental & Child Psychology Rankings

The developmental and child psychology major at UCSD is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Developmental & Child 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.

Developmental and Child Psychology Student Demographics at UCSD

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the developmental and child psychology majors at University of California - San Diego.

UCSD Developmental & Child Psychology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 19% of developmental and child psychology bachelor's degrees went to men and 81% went to women. The typical developmental and child psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 10% men. So male students are more repesented at UCSD since its program graduates 9% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 34% more racial-ethnic minorities in its developmental and child psychology 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 - San Diego with a bachelor's in developmental and child psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	15
White	6
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Experimental Psychology
• Cognitive Psychology & Psycholinguistics
• Social Psychology

Careers That Developmental and Child Psychology Grads May Go Into

A degree in developmental and child psychology 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 - San Diego.

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

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 Znode at English Wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.