Psychology at Florida Southern College

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

Florida Southern is located in Lakeland, Florida and has a total student population of 3,413. Of the 757 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Florida Southern College in 2021, 58 of them were psychology majors.

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

Florida Southern Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Florida Southern Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the psychology progam at Florida Southern compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The psychology major at Florida Southern 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
	405
	408
Best Psychology Schools	496
Best Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	497
Most Popular Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	531
Best Value Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	786
Best Value Psychology Schools	912

Psychology Student Demographics at Florida Southern

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

Florida Southern Psychology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 58 psychology majors earned their bachelor's degree from Florida Southern. Of these graduates, 14% were men and 86% were women.

About 83% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at Florida Southern 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 Florida Southern College with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	48
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Concentrations Within Psychology

If you plan to be a psychology major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Florida Southern College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Psychology	58

Related Majors

• History
• Social Sciences
• Communication & Journalism
• Education

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 FL, the home state for Florida Southern College.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
Managers	23,160	$99,240
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	3,950	$76,190
Psychologists	1,330	$96,640
Psychology Professors	1,060	$77,810

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 Ebyabe under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.