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Child Development & Psychology at Whitman College

Child Development & Psychology at Whitman College

Every child development & psychology school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the child development program at Whitman College stacks up to those at other schools.

Whitman is located in Walla Walla, Washington and has a total student population of 1,360.

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.

Whitman Child Development & Psychology Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development

Whitman Child Development & Psychology Rankings

The child development major at Whitman 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 Whitman

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

Whitman Child Development & Psychology Bachelor’s Program

74% Women
45% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 26% of child development bachelor's degrees went to men and 74% 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 Whitman since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% 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 Whitman College with a bachelor's in child development.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 6
Black or African American 4
Hispanic or Latino 8
White 25
International Students 3
Other Races/Ethnicities 7

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 Whitman College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Other Research & Experimental Psychology 37

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 WA, the home state for Whitman College.

Occupation Jobs in WA Average Salary in WA
Managers 11,280 $125,490
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists 2,330 $73,840
Psychology Professors 860 $68,420
Psychologists 370 $102,760

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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