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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$11,135 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$49,734 Avg Salary

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

Child Development & Psychology is the #51 most popular major in Kansas with 187 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Child Development & Psychology Master's Degree Schools in Kansas ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Kansas 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 Kansas

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

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

#1

University of Kansas

Lawrence, KS

Our analysis found University of Kansas to be the best value school for child development and psychology students who want to pursue a master’s degree in Kansas. Located in the small city of Lawrence, KU is a public school with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at KU are $11,045 per year.

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

Full Child Development & Psychology at University of Kansas Report

#2

Kansas State University

Manhattan, KS

Out of the 2 schools in Kansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the # 2 spot on the list. K -State is a very large public school located in the city of Manhattan.

K -State graduate students pay an average of $11,225 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

K -State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Child Development & Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Kansas list.

Full Child Development & Psychology at Kansas State University Report

Best Value Child Development & Psychology Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Child Development & Psychology Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 671
Minnesota 552
Iowa 69
Nebraska 136
North Dakota 2

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 2 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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