General Psychology at Colgate University

If you plan to study general psychology, take a look at what Colgate University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Colgate is located in Hamilton, New York and has a total student population of 3,054. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Colgate.

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.

Colgate General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Colgate General Psychology Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The psychology major at Colgate 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
	1
Best General Psychology Schools	10
Best Value General Psychology Schools	512
Most Popular General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	1,227
Most Focused General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	1,274
Most Focused General Psychology Schools	1,528

Earnings of Colgate Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at Colgate is $48,179. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 68% higher than the national average of $28,637 for all psychology bachelor's degree recipients.

Psychology Student Demographics at Colgate

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

Colgate General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 psychology majors earned their bachelor's degree from Colgate. Of these graduates, 40% were men and 60% were women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at Colgate since its program graduates 20% more men than average.

About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at Colgate 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 Colgate University with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Colgate 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 NY, the home state for Colgate University.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Managers	16,600	$124,160
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	11,370	$94,140
Psychology Professors	4,840	$99,690
Psychologists	480	$99,640

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 Balon Greyjoy under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.