2025 Best Child Development & Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in child development & psychology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #38 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Child Development & Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 75 doctor's degrees in child development & psychology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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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 doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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

The child development school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Child Development & Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Child Development & Psychology in the Southwest Region

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

Top Southwest Region Schools for a Doctorate in Child Development

1

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, AZ

15 Annual Graduates

Arizona State University - Tempe is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in child development & psychology. Located in the city of Tempe, ASU - Tempe is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in child development & psychology from Arizona State University - Tempe

2

University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

14 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in child development & psychology has to check out University of Arizona. University of Arizona is a very large public university located in the large city of Tucson.More information about a doctorate in child development & psychology from University of Arizona

Best Child Development & Psychology Colleges by State

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	165	37
Arizona	119	16
New Mexico	59	0

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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
Experimental Psychology	38
Other Research & Experimental Psychology	29
Developmental & Child Psychology	4
Social Psychology	4

Most Popular Majors Related to Child Development

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Psychology	388
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	359

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.