General Psychology at Central Washington University

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

CWU is located in Ellensburg, Washington and approximately 11,174 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 201 psychology majors received their bachelor's degree from CWU.

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.

CWU General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Online Classes Are Available at CWU

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? CWU offers distance education options for psychology at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

CWU General Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the psychology progam at CWU 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 CWU 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 Schools	144
Most Focused General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	430

Earnings of CWU Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at CWU is $30,225. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 6% higher than the national average of $28,637 for all psychology bachelor's degree recipients.

Psychology Student Demographics at CWU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the psychology majors at Central Washington University.

CWU General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 201 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Psychology from CWU in 2020-2021, 20% were men and 80% were women.

About 51% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at CWU are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	11
Hispanic or Latino	39
White	102
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	42

CWU 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 WA, the home state for Central Washington University.

Occupation	Jobs in WA	Average Salary in WA
Managers	11,280	$125,490
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	2,330	$73,840
Psychology Professors	860	$68,420
Psychologists	370	$102,760

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 Bobak Ha’Eri under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.