General Psychology at Dickinson College

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

Dickinson is located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 1,932. In 2021, 45 psychology majors received their bachelor's degree from Dickinson.

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.

Dickinson General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Dickinson General Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the psychology progam at Dickinson 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 Dickinson 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
Best General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	22
Best General Psychology Schools	25
	40
	43
Most Focused General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	279
Most Focused General Psychology Schools	324
Most Popular General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	552
Best Value General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	625
Most Popular General Psychology Schools	688

Earnings of Dickinson Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at Dickinson is $36,712. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 28% higher than the national average of $28,637 for all psychology bachelor's degree recipients.

Psychology Student Demographics at Dickinson

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

Dickinson General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

The psychology program at Dickinson awarded 45 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 20% of these degrees went to men with the other 80% going to women.

About 64% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at Dickinson 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 Dickinson College with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	29
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Dickinson also has a doctoral program available in psychology. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

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 PA, the home state for Dickinson College.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Managers	11,060	$126,290
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	4,440	$83,610
Psychology Professors	2,130	$89,300
Psychologists	460	$87,940

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 JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.