General Psychology at Colby College

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

Colby is located in Waterville, Maine and has a total student population of 2,155. Of the 711 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Colby College in 2021, 39 of them were general psychology majors.

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.

Colby General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Colby General 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 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
Most Focused General Psychology Schools	546
Most Popular General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	603
Most Popular General Psychology Schools	756

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 General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

The psychology program at Colby awarded 39 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 21% of these degrees went to men with the other 79% going to women.

About 74% 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	2
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	29
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Colby 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

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.