General Psychology at Brooklyn College

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

Brooklyn College is located in Brooklyn, New York and has a total student population of 17,735. Of the 3,219 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College in 2021, 602 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.

Brooklyn College General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Brooklyn College General Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the psychology progam at Brooklyn College 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 Brooklyn College 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 Popular General Psychology Schools	24
Best Value General Psychology Schools	194

How Much Do Psychology Graduates from Brooklyn College Make?

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at Brooklyn College is $28,308. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $28,637 for all psychology students.

Psychology Student Demographics at Brooklyn College

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

Brooklyn College General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 602 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brooklyn College. About 23% were men and 77% were women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at Brooklyn College since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 17% more racial-ethnic minorities in its psychology bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	100
Black or African American	134
Hispanic or Latino	134
White	210
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	18

Brooklyn College 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
• Clinical, Counseling & Applied 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 Brooklyn College.

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 Gabriel Liendo under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.