Child Development & Psychology at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus

If you plan to study child development and psychology, take a look at what University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

CU Anschutz is located in Denver, Colorado and approximately 24,723 students attend the school each year. Of the 2,889 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus in 2021, 58 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.

CU Anschutz Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

CU Anschutz Child Development & Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the child development progam at CU Anschutz 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 CU Anschutz 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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools	108

Earnings of CU Anschutz Child Development Graduates

The median salary of child development students who receive their bachelor's degree at CU Anschutz is $33,411. This is 8% higher than $30,859, which is the national average for all child development bachelor's degree recipients.

Child Development Student Demographics at CU Anschutz

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the child development majors at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus.

CU Anschutz Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 58 child development majors earned their bachelor's degree from CU Anschutz. Of these graduates, 19% were men and 81% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 13% 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 Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	8
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	13
White	26
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

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

Related Majors

• Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology
• 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 CO, the home state for University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in CO	Average Salary in CO
Managers	8,940	$138,490
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	2,670	$85,470
Psychology Professors	800	$68,010
Psychologists	270	$83,630

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 Jeffrey Beall under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.