Psychology at Colby College

Every psychology school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the psychology program at Colby College stacks up to those at other schools.

Colby is located in Waterville, Maine and approximately 2,155 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.

Colby Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Colby Psychology Rankings

The psychology major at Colby 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 Colby

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

Colby Psychology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of psychology bachelor's degrees went to men and 67% went to women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at Colby since its program graduates 13% more men than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	18
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Concentrations Within Psychology

If you plan to be a psychology major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Colby College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Psychology	39
Child Development & Psychology	20

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 ME, the home state for Colby College.

Occupation	Jobs in ME	Average Salary in ME
Managers	1,380	$96,570
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	290	$75,620
Psychology Professors	180	$73,000
Psychologists	60	$82,790

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 Nickline4 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.