Psychology at Carleton College

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

Carleton is located in Northfield, Minnesota and approximately 1,940 students attend the school each year. Of the 517 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College in 2021, 35 of them were psychology majors.

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

Carleton Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Carleton Psychology Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The psychology major at Carleton 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Psychology Schools	586
Most Popular Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	751
Most Popular Psychology Schools	1,021

Psychology Student Demographics at Carleton

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

Carleton Psychology Bachelor’s Program

The psychology program at Carleton awarded 35 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 34% of these degrees went to men with the other 66% going to women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at Carleton since its program graduates 14% more men than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	16
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Concentrations Within Psychology

Psychology majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Carleton College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Child Development & Psychology	35

Related Majors

• Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies
• History
• Social Sciences

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 MN, the home state for Carleton College.

Occupation	Jobs in MN	Average Salary in MN
Managers	9,350	$128,590
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	3,220	$85,860
Psychology Professors	710	$86,380
Psychologists	440	$93,310

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 Dogs1337 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.