General Psychology at Hood College

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

Hood is located in Frederick, Maryland and approximately 2,042 students attend the school each year. Of the 266 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Hood College in 2021, 15 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.

Hood General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Hood General Psychology Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The psychology major at Hood 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	242
Best Value General Psychology Schools	722

Earnings of Hood Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at Hood is $32,281. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 13% higher than the national average of $28,637 for all psychology bachelor's degree recipients.

Psychology Student Demographics at Hood

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

Hood General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 15 psychology students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Hood, about 33% were men and 67% were women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at Hood since its program graduates 13% more men than average.

About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at Hood 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 Hood College with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	10
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Hood 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 MD, the home state for Hood College.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Managers	14,450	$122,050
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	2,090	$79,820
Psychologists	630	$112,330
Psychology Professors	430	$87,850

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 Andrew.Belair under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.