2025 Best Child Development & Psychology Master's Degree Schools in Illinois

Child Development & Psychology is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #80 most popular master's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for child development & psychology students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 122 master's degrees in child development & psychology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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

The child development master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master'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 - The number of child development & psychology students who choose to seek a master'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 easy is it for child development & psychology to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
• 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 master'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 Master's Degree Schools in Illinois.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Child Development & Psychology in Illinois

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

Top Illinois Schools for a Master's in Child Development

1

University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

73 Annual Graduates

University of Chicago is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in child development & psychology. UChicago is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Chicago.More information about a master’s in child development & psychology from University of Chicago

2

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

27 Annual Graduates

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in child development & psychology. UIUC is a very large public university located in the small city of Champaign.More information about a master’s in child development & psychology from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

3

DePaul University
Chicago, IL

10 Annual Graduates

DePaul University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in child development & psychology. DePaul is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Chicago.More information about a master’s in child development & psychology from DePaul University

Best Child Development & Psychology Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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

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

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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
Experimental Psychology	75
Other Research & Experimental Psychology	35
Psychometrics & Quantitative Psychology	6
Social Psychology	4
Developmental & Child Psychology	2

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	1,563
General Psychology	132

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.