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2023 Best Value Child Development & Psychology Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

22 Colleges
$32,500 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$49,734 Avg Salary

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

Child Development & Psychology is the #79 most popular major in the country with 2,576 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Child Development & Psychology Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 22 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for child development students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Child Development & Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Check out the child development master's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Top 10 Best Child Development & Psychology Master's Degree Schools

#1

Montclair State University

Montclair, NJ

Our 2023 rankings named Montclair State University the best value school in the Middle Atlantic Region for child development and psychology students working on their master’s degree. Montclair State is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Montclair.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Montclair State are $13,519 a year.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means The Graduate Center, CUNY is a great value for child development and psychology students working on their master’s degree. The Graduate Center is a medium-sized public school located in the large city of New York.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at The Graduate Center are $23,640 per year.

The Graduate Center also claimed a spot on our Best Child Development & Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.

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#3

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

The excellent master’s degree programs at Cornell University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value child development and psychology schools in the Middle Atlantic Region . Cornell is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Ithaca.

Cornell graduate students pay an average of $30,006 in tuition and fees each year.

Cornell did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Child Development & Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Delaware. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Child Development & Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. UD is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Newark.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UD are $18,128 a year.

UD also claimed a spot on our Best Child Development & Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category.

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#5

Fordham University

Bronx, NY

The excellent master’s degree programs at Fordham University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value child development and psychology schools in the Middle Atlantic Region . Fordham U is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Bronx.

Fordham U graduate students pay an average of $23,846 in tuition and fees each year.

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#6

Duquesne University

Pittsburgh, PA

Duquesne University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for child development and psychology students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #6 on the list. Located in the city of Pittsburgh, Duquesne is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.

Duquesne graduate students pay an average of $24,534 in tuition and fees each year.

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With a ranking of #7, University of Maryland - Baltimore County did quite well on this year’s best value schools for child development and psychology students working on their master’s degree. Located in the large suburb of Baltimore, UMBC is a public school with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UMBC are $23,580 a year.

Full Child Development & Psychology at University of Maryland - Baltimore County Report

#8

Morgan State University

Baltimore, MD

Morgan State University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for child development and psychology students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #8 on the list. Located in the city of Baltimore, Morgan State is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

Morgan State graduate students pay an average of $17,559 in tuition and fees each year.

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#9

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

University of Pennsylvania did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for child development and psychology students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #9 on the list. UPenn is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Philadelphia.

UPenn graduate students pay an average of $42,932 in tuition and fees each year.

UPenn also made our Best Child Development & Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list, coming in at #4.

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#10

St. Francis College

Brooklyn Heights, NY

St. Francis College did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for child development and psychology students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #10 on the list. SFC is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Brooklyn Heights.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at SFC are $16,000 a year.

Full Child Development & Psychology at St. Francis College Report

Best Child Development & Psychology Colleges by State

Explore the best child development and psychology colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 668
Pennsylvania 198
Maryland 19
New Jersey 109
District of Columbia 25
Delaware 7

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 22 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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