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2023 Best Value Child Development & Psychology Schools in Washington

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$9,821 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$31,517 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Child Development & Psychology School for You

With 27 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, child development and psychology is the #80 most popular major in Washington.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Child Development & Psychology Schools in Washington ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Washington to see which 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 Schools in Washington

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for child development majors pursuing a .

Best Washington Schools for Affordable Quality in Child Development & Psychology

$8,685 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Central Washington University the best value school in Washington for child development and psychology students. CWU is a fairly large public school located in the town of Ellensburg.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at CWU are $8,685 per year.

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$8,703 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Western Washington University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Child Development & Psychology Schools in Washington list. Located in the city of Bellingham, WWU is a public college with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at WWU are $8,703 a year.

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$12,076 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in Washington that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Washington - Seattle Campus landed the # 3 spot on the list. UW Seattle is a very large public school located in the large city of Seattle.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UW Seattle are $12,076 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UW Seattle is ranked #4 for overall quality for child development in Washington.

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Best Value Child Development & Psychology Colleges in the Far Western US Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
California 231
Oregon 5
Nevada 51

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 3 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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