General Psychology at Merrimack College

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

Merrimack is located in North Andover, Massachusetts and approximately 5,418 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 51 psychology majors received their bachelor's degree from Merrimack.

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.

Merrimack General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Merrimack General Psychology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks psychology programs across the country. The following shows how Merrimack performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The psychology major at Merrimack 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
	146
Best Value General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	905

Earnings of Merrimack Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at Merrimack is $32,643. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 14% higher than the national average of $28,637 for all psychology bachelor's degree recipients.

Psychology Student Demographics at Merrimack

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

Merrimack General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 51 students earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Merrimack. About 78% of these graduates were women and the other 22% were men. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at Merrimack since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

About 78% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at Merrimack 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 Merrimack College with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	40
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Merrimack 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 MA, the home state for Merrimack College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Managers	8,660	$131,450
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	4,050	$86,490
Psychology Professors	1,490	$97,690
Psychologists	980	$83,550
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists	100	$75,660

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 Merrimack Colleges Church under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.