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2023 Best Value Child Development & Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in New Jersey

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$39,643 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,693 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Child Development & Psychology Doctor's Degree School for You

With 109 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, child development and psychology is the #42 most popular major in New Jersey.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

The Best Value Child Development & Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in New Jersey ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in New Jersey to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for child development students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Child Development & Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Child Development & Psychology Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Best New Jersey Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Child Development & Psychology

Our 2023 rankings named Rutgers University - New Brunswick the best value school in New Jersey for child development and psychology students working on their doctor’s degree. Rutgers New Brunswick is a very large public school located in the small city of New Brunswick.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Rutgers New Brunswick are $20,495 a year.

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#2

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Princeton University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Child Development & Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey list. Princeton is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Princeton.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Princeton are $58,790 per year.

Princeton did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Child Development & Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey list.

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Best Value Child Development & Psychology Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
New York 668
Pennsylvania 198
Maryland 19
District of Columbia 25
Delaware 7

One of 3 majors within the area of study, child development and psychology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology 29,224
General Psychology 8,051
Other Psychology 2,162

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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.

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