Counseling Psychology at Lamar University

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

Lamar University is located in Beaumont, Texas and approximately 16,637 students attend the school each year.

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

Lamar University Counseling Psychology Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology

Lamar University Counseling Psychology Rankings

Counseling Psychology Student Demographics at Lamar University

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the counseling psychology majors at Lamar University.

Lamar University Counseling Psychology Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 12% of counseling psychology master's degrees went to men and 88% went to women.

In the counseling psychology master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 54% of degree recipients. That is 18% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	140
Hispanic or Latino	123
White	232
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	14

Related Majors

• Applied Psychology

Careers That Counseling Psychology Grads May Go Into

A degree in counseling 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 TX, the home state for Lamar University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Managers	20,710	$122,130
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	6,680	$73,650
Psychology Professors	3,080	$78,270

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 Billy Hathorn under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.