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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

7 Colleges
$9,761 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,693 Avg Salary

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

Child Development & Psychology is the #97 most popular major in Texas with 120 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

The Best Value Child Development & Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in Texas ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 7 schools in Texas 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. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

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

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

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

#1

University of Houston

Houston, TX

Our 2023 rankings named University of Houston the best value school in Texas for child development and psychology students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the city of Houston, UH is a public college with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UH are $9,727 per year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, UH also is in the top 20% of our Best Child Development & Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas ranking.

Full Child Development & Psychology at University of Houston Report

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Texas A&M University - College Station helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value child development and psychology schools in Texas. Located in the medium-sized city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public school with a very large student population.

Texas A&M College Station graduate students pay an average of $10,733 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Texas A&M College Station did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Child Development & Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas list.

Full Child Development & Psychology at Texas A&M University - College Station Report

#3

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Child Development & Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas list. Texas Tech is a fairly large public school located in the city of Lubbock.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Texas Tech are $9,518 per year.

Full Child Development & Psychology at Texas Tech University Report

Out of the 7 schools in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Texas landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the city of Denton, UNT is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UNT are $8,256 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at San Antonio. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Child Development & Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas list. UTSA is a very large public school located in the city of San Antonio.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UTSA are $9,479 per year.

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The University of Texas at Arlington did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for child development and psychology students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #6 on the list. UT Arlington is a very large public school located in the city of Arlington.

UT Arlington graduate students pay an average of $10,853 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Child Development & Psychology at The University of Texas at Arlington Report

The University of Texas at Dallas did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for child development and psychology students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #7 on the list. Located in the city of Richardson, UT Dallas is a public college with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UT Dallas are $15,088 per year.

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Best Value Child Development & Psychology Colleges in the Southwest Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 16
Oklahoma 3
New Mexico 8

Child Development & Psychology is one of 3 different types of programs to choose from.

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 7 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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