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. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 59 students received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Colby.

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 following rankings from College Factual show how the psychology progam at Colby 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 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	240
Most Popular Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	527
Most Popular Psychology Schools	763

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, 24% of psychology bachelor's degrees went to men and 76% 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 4% more men than average.

About 68% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at Colby are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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	8
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	40
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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

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

Related Majors

• Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies
• Education
• 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 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.