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Child Development & Psychology at Vassar College

Child Development & Psychology at Vassar College

If you plan to study child development & psychology, take a look at what Vassar College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Vassar is located in Poughkeepsie, New York and has a total student population of 2,435.

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.

Vassar Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

Vassar Child Development & Psychology Rankings

The child development major at Vassar 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 Vassar

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

Vassar Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

73% Women
38% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
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 Vassar since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

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About 58% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in child development at Vassar are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Vassar College with a bachelor's in child development.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 5
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 7
White 26
International Students 2
Other Races/Ethnicities 5

Concentrations Within Child Development & Psychology

The following child development concentations are available at Vassar College. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Vassar College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Other Research & Experimental Psychology 46

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 NY, the home state for Vassar College.

Occupation Jobs in NY Average Salary in NY
Managers 16,600 $124,160
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists 11,370 $94,140
Psychology Professors 4,840 $99,690
Psychologists 480 $99,640

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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