General Psychology at College of San Mateo

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

CSM is located in San Mateo, California and approximately 7,494 students attend the school each year.

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.

CSM General Psychology Degrees Available

• Basic Certificate in Psychology (Less Than 1 Year)
• Associate’s Degree in Psychology

Online Classes Are Available at CSM

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? CSM offers distance education options for psychology at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree

CSM General Psychology Rankings

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.

Psychology Student Demographics at CSM

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

CSM General Psychology Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 25% of psychology associate's degrees went to men and 75% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in psychology only graduates about 20% men each year. The program at CSM may seem more male-friendly since it graduates 5% more women than average.

CSM does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in psychology graduates 28% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	16
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	25
White	13
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	11

Related Majors

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 CA, the home state for College of San Mateo.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	17,310	$108,350
Psychology Professors	4,530	$117,990
Psychologists	2,080	$114,860
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists	40	$149,820

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.