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2023 Best Value Child Development & Psychology Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

8 Colleges
$36,882 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$49,734 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Child Development & Psychology Master's Degree School for You

Child Development & Psychology is the #46 most popular major in Massachusetts with 804 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Child Development & Psychology Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 8 schools in Massachusetts to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for child development students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Child Development & Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Child Development & Psychology Master's Degree Colleges.

Best Massachusetts Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Child Development & Psychology

Our 2023 rankings named University of Massachusetts - Lowell the best value school in Massachusetts for child development and psychology students working on their master’s degree. UMass Lowell is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Lowell.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UMass Lowell are $15,210 per year.

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#2

Boston College

Chestnut Hill, MA

The excellent master’s degree programs at Boston College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value child development and psychology schools in Massachusetts. Located in the city of Chestnut Hill, Boston College is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

Boston College graduate students pay an average of $32,722 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Boston College is ranked #5 for overall quality for child development in Massachusetts.

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Out of the 8 schools in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts - Boston landed the # 3 spot on the list. UMass Boston is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Boston.

UMass Boston graduate students pay an average of $18,938 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Child Development & Psychology at University of Massachusetts - Boston Report

#4

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Harvard University is a great value for child development and psychology students working on their master’s degree. Harvard is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Cambridge.

Harvard graduate students pay an average of $52,170 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Harvard is ranked #2 for overall quality for child development in Massachusetts.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at Northeastern University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value child development and psychology schools in Massachusetts. Located in the city of Boston, Northeastern is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Northeastern are $26,095 per year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Northeastern also is in the top 20% of our Best Child Development & Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts ranking.

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#6

Brandeis University

Waltham, MA

Brandeis University landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree child development and psychology programs. Brandeis is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Waltham.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Brandeis are $53,618 per year.

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#7

Bay Path University

Longmeadow, MA

Bay Path University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Child Development & Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts list. Bay Path is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Longmeadow.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Bay Path are $19,235 a year.

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#8

Boston University

Boston, MA

Boston University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Child Development & Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts ranking. Boston U is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Boston.

Boston U graduate students pay an average of $59,418 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, Boston U is in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Child Development & Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts list.

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Best Value Child Development & Psychology Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Value Child Development & Psychology Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Connecticut 294
New Hampshire 54
Maine 116
Rhode Island 73
Vermont 29

Child Development & Psychology is one of 3 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Child Development

Related Major Annual Graduates
General Psychology 141,695
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology 33,758
Other Psychology 2,683

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 8 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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