General Psychology at Pacific Lutheran University

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

PLU is located in Tacoma, Washington and approximately 2,907 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 22 students received a bachelor's degree in psychology from PLU.

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.

PLU General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

PLU General Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the psychology progam at PLU 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 PLU 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	398
	500
	508
Best Value General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	825
Most Popular General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	855
Best Value General Psychology Schools	872
Most Focused General Psychology Schools	1,132

Earnings of PLU Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at PLU is $28,221. 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 PLU

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

PLU General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

The psychology program at PLU awarded 22 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 14% of these degrees went to men with the other 86% going to women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	11
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

PLU 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 WA, the home state for Pacific Lutheran University.

Occupation	Jobs in WA	Average Salary in WA
Managers	11,280	$125,490
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	2,330	$73,840
Psychology Professors	860	$68,420
Psychologists	370	$102,760

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 Joe Mabel under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.