Psychology at Houghton College

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

Houghton is located in Houghton, New York and approximately 902 students attend the school each year.

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

Houghton Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Online Classes Are Available at Houghton

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Houghton offers distance education options for psychology at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree
• Bachelor’s Degree

Houghton Psychology Rankings

The psychology major at Houghton 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 Houghton

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

Houghton Psychology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 18% of psychology bachelor's degrees went to men and 82% went to women.

About 77% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at Houghton 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 Houghton College with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	17
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Concentrations Within Psychology

The following psychology concentations are available at Houghton College. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Houghton College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Psychology	20

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 NY, the home state for Houghton College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Managers	16,600	$124,160
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	11,370	$94,140
Psychology Professors	4,840	$99,690
Psychologists	480	$99,640

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 college under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.