2025 Best Child Development & Psychology Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

a master's degree in child development & psychology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #80 out of 343 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

College Factual looked at 8 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Child Development & Psychology Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 249 master's degrees in child development & psychology to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great Child Development & Psychology School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of child development & psychology for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality child development program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on child development & psychology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other child development & psychology students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt child development & psychology students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized child development & psychology related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for child development & psychology students working on their master's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Child Development & Psychology Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Child Development & Psychology in the Great Lakes Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in child development & psychology.

Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Master's in Child Development

1

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI

35 Annual Graduates

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in child development & psychology. U-M is a very large public university located in the city of Ann Arbor.More information about a master’s in child development & psychology from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

2

University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

73 Annual Graduates

University of Chicago is a good choice for individuals interested in a master's degree in child development & psychology. Located in the large city of Chicago, UChicago is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a master’s in child development & psychology from University of Chicago

3

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

27 Annual Graduates

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a wonderful choice for individuals interested in a master's degree in child development & psychology. Located in the city of Champaign, UIUC is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in child development & psychology from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

4

Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, OH

18 Annual Graduates

Ohio State University - Main Campus is a wonderful option for individuals interested in a master's degree in child development & psychology. Ohio State is a very large public university located in the city of Columbus.More information about a master’s in child development & psychology from Ohio State University - Main Campus

5

DePaul University
Chicago, IL

10 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of Chicago, DePaul is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in child development & psychology from DePaul University

6

Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, IN

13 Annual Graduates

Purdue is a fairly large public university located in the small city of West Lafayette.More information about a master’s in child development & psychology from Purdue University - Main Campus

7

Ball State University
Muncie, IN

25 Annual Graduates

Ball State is a very large public university located in the small city of Muncie.More information about a master’s in child development & psychology from Ball State University

8

Kent State University at Kent
Kent, OH

11 Annual Graduates

Kent State is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Kent.More information about a master’s in child development & psychology from Kent State University at Kent

Best Child Development & Psychology Colleges by State

Explore the best child development & psychology colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Illinois	221	62
Michigan	211	28
Ohio	207	45
Indiana	191	47
Wisconsin	173	5

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Rankings in Majors Related to Child Development

One of 24 majors within the Psychology area of study, Child Development & Psychology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Child Development Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Experimental Psychology	160
Other Research & Experimental Psychology	52
Psychometrics & Quantitative Psychology	21
Social Psychology	11
Cognitive Psychology & Psycholinguistics	3
Developmental & Child Psychology	2

Most Popular Majors Related to Child Development

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	3,379
General Psychology	474
Other Psychology	73

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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.