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

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.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 4 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Child Development & Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Minnesota ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 266 bachelor's degrees in child development & psychology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

Your choice of child development & psychology for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality child development program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

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

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on child development & psychology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other child development & psychology students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for child development & psychology to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
• 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 bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Minnesota 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 Minnesota

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

Top Minnesota Schools for a Bachelor's in Child Development

1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN

111 Annual Graduates

$31,027 Median Starting Salary

$21,215 Median Student Debt

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is a wonderful decision for students interested in a bachelor's degree in child development & psychology. Located in the city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public university with a very large student population.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the child development program earn about $31,027 in the first couple years of working.

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2

Carleton College
Northfield, MN

29 Annual Graduates

$39,238 Median Starting Salary

Carleton College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in child development & psychology. Carleton is a small private not-for-profit college located in the distant town of Northfield.

Those child development & psychology students who get their bachelor's degree from Carleton College earn $3,246 more than the average child development grad.

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3

Macalester College
Saint Paul, MN

41 Annual Graduates

$38,027 Median Starting Salary

It's difficult to beat Macalester College if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in child development & psychology. Macalester is a small private not-for-profit college located in the large city of Saint Paul.

Bachelor's recipients from the child development & psychology degree program at Macalester College make $2,035 more than the average college graduate in this field shortly after graduation.

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4

Metropolitan State University
Saint Paul, MN

15 Annual Graduates

$36,600 Median Starting Salary

It's difficult to beat Metropolitan State University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in child development & psychology. Located in the large city of Saint Paul, Metro State is a public university with a medium-sized student population.

After graduating, child development bachelor's recipients generally make about $36,600 in the first five years of their career.

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Best Child Development & Psychology Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	228	562
Iowa	197	69
Kansas	184	127
Nebraska	180	136
North Dakota	149	2

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Rankings in Majors Related to Child Development

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

Child Development Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Other Research & Experimental Psychology	139
Developmental & Child Psychology	126
Social Psychology	1

Majors Similar to Child Development

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Psychology	2,573
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	112
Other Psychology	6

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.