General Psychology at Philander Smith College

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

Philander Smith is located in Little Rock, Arkansas and approximately 799 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 19 students received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Philander Smith.

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.

Philander Smith General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Philander Smith General Psychology Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The psychology major at Philander Smith 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	34
Most Focused General Psychology Schools	45
Most Popular General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	909
Most Popular General Psychology Schools	1,105

Psychology Student Demographics at Philander Smith

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

Philander Smith General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

The psychology program at Philander Smith awarded 19 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 26% of these degrees went to men with the other 74% going to women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at Philander Smith since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 53% 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 Philander Smith College with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	18
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Philander Smith 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 AR, the home state for Philander Smith College.

Occupation	Jobs in AR	Average Salary in AR
Managers	3,360	$86,410
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	580	$69,000
Psychology Professors	220	$64,360
Psychologists	80	$83,030

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.