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General Psychology at Messiah University

General Psychology at Messiah University

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

Messiah is located in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 3,370.

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.

Messiah General Psychology Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Messiah General Psychology Rankings

The psychology major at Messiah 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.

Psychology Student Demographics at Messiah

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

Messiah General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

76% Women
40% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 24% of psychology bachelor's degrees went to men and 76% went to women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at Messiah since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

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About 60% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at Messiah 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 Messiah University with a bachelor's in psychology.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 3
Hispanic or Latino 5
White 15
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

Concentrations Within General 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 Messiah University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
General Psychology 26

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 PA, the home state for Messiah University.

Occupation Jobs in PA Average Salary in PA
Managers 11,060 $126,290
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists 4,440 $83,610
Psychology Professors 2,130 $89,300
Psychologists 460 $87,940

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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