General Psychology at Occidental College

What traits are you looking for in a psychology school? To help you decide if Occidental College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's psychology program.

Oxy is located in Los Angeles, California and approximately 1,839 students attend the school each year. Of the 487 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Occidental College in 2021, 41 of them were general psychology majors.

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.

Oxy General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Oxy General Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the psychology progam at Oxy compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 Oxy 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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools	301
Best General Psychology Schools	312
Most Popular General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	583
Most Popular General Psychology Schools	726
	728
Best Value General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	898
Best Value General Psychology Schools	943

Earnings of Oxy Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at Oxy is $25,916. 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 Oxy

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

Oxy General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 41 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Psychology from Oxy in 2020-2021, 5% were men and 95% were women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Occidental College with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	8
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	19
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Oxy 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 CA, the home state for Occidental College.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	17,310	$108,350
Psychology Professors	4,530	$117,990
Psychologists	2,080	$114,860
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists	40	$149,820

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 The Port of Authority under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.