General Psychology at California State University - Northridge

If you are interested in studying general psychology, you may want to check out the program at California State University - Northridge. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

CSUN is located in Northridge, California and approximately 40,381 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 864 students received a bachelor's degree in psychology from CSUN.

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

CSUN General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology
• Master’s Degree in Psychology

CSUN General Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the psychology progam at CSUN compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The psychology major at CSUN is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	490

In 2021, 17 students received their master’s degree in psychology from CSUN. This makes it the #87 most popular school for psychology master’s degree candidates in the country.

Earnings of CSUN Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at CSUN is $27,524. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $28,637 for all psychology students.

Psychology Student Demographics at CSUN

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the psychology majors at California State University - Northridge.

CSUN General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 864 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Psychology from CSUN in 2020-2021, 23% were men and 77% were women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at CSUN since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 23% 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 California State University - Northridge with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	54
Black or African American	47
Hispanic or Latino	477
White	200
International Students	39
Other Races/Ethnicities	47

CSUN General Psychology Master’s Program

The psychology program at CSUN awarded 17 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 6% of these degrees went to men with the other 94% going to women.

In the psychology master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 71% of degree recipients. That is 24% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from California State University - Northridge with a master's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	10
White	4
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

CSUN also has a doctoral program available in psychology. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Child Development & Psychology
• Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology

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 CA, the home state for California State University - Northridge.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	17,310	$108,350
Psychology Professors	4,530	$117,990
Psychologists	2,080	$114,860
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists	40	$149,820

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 Cbl62 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.