Psychology at Amherst College

What traits are you looking for in a psychology school? To help you decide if Amherst College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's psychology program.

Amherst is located in Amherst, Massachusetts and approximately 1,745 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Psychology section at the bottom of this page.

Amherst Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Amherst Psychology Rankings

The psychology major at Amherst is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Psychology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Psychology Student Demographics at Amherst

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the psychology majors at Amherst College.

Amherst Psychology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 39% of psychology bachelor's degrees went to men and 61% went to women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at Amherst since its program graduates 20% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% more racial-ethnic minorities in its psychology bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Amherst College with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	13
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	26
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

Concentrations Within Psychology

The following psychology concentations are available at Amherst College. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Amherst College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Child Development & Psychology	37

Careers That Psychology Grads May Go Into

A degree in psychology can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for Amherst College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Managers	8,660	$131,450
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	4,050	$86,490
Psychology Professors	1,490	$97,690
Psychologists	980	$83,550
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists	100	$75,660

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.