2025 Best Child Development & Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Michigan

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in child development & psychology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #37 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Michigan to determine which ones were the best for child development & psychology students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 800 bachelor's degrees in child development & psychology to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to child development & psychology students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of child development & psychology students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt child development & psychology students go into to obtain their bachelor'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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for child development & psychology students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Child Development & Psychology Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Child Development & Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Michigan list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Child Development & Psychology in Michigan

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

Top Michigan Schools for a Bachelor's in Child Development

1

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI

761 Annual Graduates

$31,568 Median Starting Salary

$48,750 Median Student Debt

It's hard to beat University of Michigan - Ann Arbor if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in child development & psychology. Located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor, U-M is a public university with a very large student population.

Bachelor's recipients from the child development & psychology major at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor get $3,831 more than the average college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

More information about a bachelor’s in child development & psychology from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

2

Albion College
Albion, MI

28 Annual Graduates

$23,906 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in child development & psychology has to check out Albion College. Albion is a small private not-for-profit college located in the town of Albion.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the child development program make an average of $23,906 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in child development & psychology from Albion College

Best Child Development & Psychology Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Child Development & Psychology Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Ohio	252	35
Illinois	241	766
Indiana	235	622

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Child Development & Psychology Related Rankings by Major

Child Development & Psychology is one of 24 different types of Psychology programs to choose from.

Child Development Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Behavioral Neuroscience	381
Experimental Psychology	380
Other Research & Experimental Psychology	28
Developmental & Child Psychology	8
Social Psychology	3

Majors Similar to Child Development

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Psychology	2,634
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	124

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.