General Psychology at Nebraska Wesleyan University

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

NWU is located in Lincoln, Nebraska and approximately 1,924 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 26 psychology majors received their bachelor's degree from NWU.

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.

NWU General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

NWU General Psychology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks psychology programs across the country. The following shows how NWU 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 NWU 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 General Psychology Schools	209
Most Focused General Psychology Schools	592
Best Value General Psychology Schools	594

Earnings of NWU Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at NWU is $28,546. This is less than $28,637, which is the national average of all psychology majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Psychology Student Demographics at NWU

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

NWU General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 26 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Psychology from NWU in 2020-2021, 12% were men and 88% were women.

About 62% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at NWU 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 Nebraska Wesleyan University with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	16
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

NWU 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 NE, the home state for Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Occupation	Jobs in NE	Average Salary in NE
Managers	1,700	$101,380
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	590	$66,510
Psychology Professors	210	$81,300

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 Ammodramus under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.