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

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.

College Factual looked at 6 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Child Development & Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 458 bachelor's degrees in child development & psychology to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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

The child development bachelor'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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

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

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

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

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Child Development & Psychology in the Southwest Region

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

Top Southwest Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Child Development

1

The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX

95 Annual Graduates

$35,982 Median Starting Salary

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in child development & psychology has to look into The University of Texas at Dallas. UT Dallas is a very large public university located in the city of Richardson.

Child Development & Psychology bachelor's degree recipients from The University of Texas at Dallas earn a boost of approximately $3,677 over the average earnings of child development & psychology majors.

More information about a bachelor’s in child development & psychology from The University of Texas at Dallas

2

Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX

30 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Texas Christian University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in child development & psychology. TCU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Fort Worth.More information about a bachelor’s in child development & psychology from Texas Christian University

3

University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

131 Annual Graduates

$28,494 Median Starting Salary

$32,070 Median Student Debt

University of Arizona is a great option for students interested in a bachelor's degree in child development & psychology. University of Arizona is a very large public university located in the large city of Tucson.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the child development program state that they receive average early career wages of $28,494.

More information about a bachelor’s in child development & psychology from University of Arizona

4

Trinity University
San Antonio, TX

33 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in child development & psychology needs to look into Trinity University. Trinity U is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of San Antonio.More information about a bachelor’s in child development & psychology from Trinity University

5

Northeastern State University
Tahlequah, OK

133 Annual Graduates

$32,440 Median Starting Salary

NSU is a medium-sized public university located in the town of Tahlequah.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the child development program report average early career earnings of $32,440.

More information about a bachelor’s in child development & psychology from Northeastern State University

6

LeTourneau University
Longview, TX

23 Annual Graduates

LETU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Longview.More information about a bachelor’s in child development & psychology from LeTourneau University

Best Child Development & Psychology Colleges by State

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	245	130
Arizona	200	118
Oklahoma	190	150

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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
Other Research & Experimental Psychology	198
Experimental Psychology	131
Developmental & Child Psychology	129

Majors Similar to Child Development

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Psychology	13,180
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	666
Other Psychology	21

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.