Child Development & Psychology at University of Maryland - College Park

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

UMCP is located in College Park, Maryland and has a total student population of 40,709.

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.

UMCP Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

UMCP Child Development & Psychology Rankings

The child development major at UMCP 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 UMCP

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

UMCP Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 27% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 73% 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 UMCP since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 8% 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 Maryland - College Park with a bachelor's in child development.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	12
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

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 completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Maryland - College Park. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded

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 MD, the home state for University of Maryland - College Park.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Managers	14,450	$122,050
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	2,090	$79,820
Psychologists	630	$112,330
Psychology Professors	430	$87,850

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 Bgervais under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.