Applied Psychology at Fielding Graduate University

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

Fielding is located in Santa Barbara, California and approximately 1,071 students attend the school each year.

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

Fielding Applied Psychology Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Applied Psychology

Online Classes Are Available at Fielding

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

• Master’s Degree

Fielding Applied Psychology Rankings

There were 8 students who received their doctoral degrees in applied psychology, making the school the #2 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Applied Psychology Student Demographics at Fielding

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

Fielding Applied Psychology Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 44% of applied psychology master's degrees went to men and 56% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 21% men graduate in applied psychology each year. Fielding does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 22% more men than average.

Of the students who received a applied psychology master's degree from Fielding, 56% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the applied psychology master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 44% of degree recipients. That is 4% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Fielding Graduate University with a master's in applied psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	9
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Other Psychology & Counseling
• Applied Behavior Analysis
• Clinical Psychology

Careers That Applied Psychology Grads May Go Into

A degree in applied 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 Fielding Graduate University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Psychology Professors	4,530	$117,990
Psychologists	2,080	$114,860

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.