General Psychology at William Peace University

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

WPU is located in Raleigh, North Carolina and approximately 830 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 12 psychology majors received their bachelor's degree from WPU.

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.

WPU General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

WPU General Psychology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks psychology programs across the country. The following shows how WPU 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 WPU 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
Most Focused General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	453
Most Focused General Psychology Schools	532
	789
	815
Best General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	904
Best Value General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	905
Best General Psychology Schools	935
Best Value General Psychology Schools	947
Most Popular General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	1,073
Most Popular General Psychology Schools	1,292

Earnings of WPU Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at WPU is $24,558. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $28,637 for all psychology students.

Psychology Student Demographics at WPU

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

WPU General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 25% of psychology bachelor's degrees went to men and 75% went to women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at WPU since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 12% more racial-ethnic minorities in its psychology bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

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

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

Related Majors

• Child Development & 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 NC, the home state for William Peace University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Managers	11,990	$121,500
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	3,030	$77,470
Psychology Professors	1,020	$77,700

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 Abbylabar under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.