Psychology at Dartmouth College

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

Dartmouth is located in Hanover, New Hampshire and has a total student population of 6,292.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Psychology section at the bottom of this page.

Dartmouth Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Dartmouth Psychology Rankings

The psychology major at Dartmouth 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.

Psychology Student Demographics at Dartmouth

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

Dartmouth Psychology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 29% of psychology bachelor's degrees went to men and 71% went to women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at Dartmouth since its program graduates 10% more men than average.

About 55% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at Dartmouth 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 Dartmouth College with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	28
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

Concentrations Within Psychology

Psychology majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Dartmouth College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Child Development & Psychology	54

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 NH, the home state for Dartmouth College.

Occupation	Jobs in NH	Average Salary in NH
Managers	950	$123,580
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	420	$84,270
Psychology Professors	300	$89,780
Psychologists	30	$98,410

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 Kane5187 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.