General Psychology at Mississippi College

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

MC is located in Clinton, Mississippi and approximately 4,667 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 45 psychology majors received their bachelor's degree from MC.

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.

MC General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

MC General Psychology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks psychology programs across the country. The following shows how MC 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 MC 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 Value General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	566
Most Popular General Psychology Schools	688

Earnings of MC Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at MC is $17,378. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $28,637 for all psychology students.

Psychology Student Demographics at MC

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

MC General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 45 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Psychology from MC in 2020-2021, 31% were men and 69% were women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at MC since its program graduates 11% more men than average.

About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at MC 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 Mississippi College with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	32
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

MC also has a doctoral program available in psychology. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology

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 MS, the home state for Mississippi College.

Occupation	Jobs in MS	Average Salary in MS
Managers	1,230	$82,230
Psychology Professors	320	$71,880
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	250	$67,570
Psychologists	60	$81,610

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 Robby Followell under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.