2025 Best Child Development & Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

a doctor's degree in child development & psychology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #38 out of 306 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for child development & psychology students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 83 doctor's degrees in child development & psychology to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor'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 - How many other child development & psychology students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• 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 doctor'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 colleges for child development & psychology students working on their doctor'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 Doctor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Child Development & Psychology in Pennsylvania

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in child development & psychology.

Top Pennsylvania Schools for a Doctorate in Child Development

1

Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

15 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Drexel University if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in child development & psychology. Drexel is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Philadelphia.More information about a doctorate in child development & psychology from Drexel University

2

Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

12 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Temple University if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in child development & psychology. Temple is a very large public university located in the large city of Philadelphia.More information about a doctorate in child development & psychology from Temple University

Best Child Development & Psychology Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	174	120
Maryland	119	10
New Jersey	115	17
District of Columbia	81	14
Delaware	53	5

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Child Development & Psychology Related Rankings by Major

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

Child Development Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Other Research & Experimental Psychology	79
Developmental & Child Psychology	4

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	185
General Psychology	14

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.