General Psychology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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

RPI is located in Troy, New York and has a total student population of 7,501. In 2021, 9 psychology majors received their bachelor's degree from RPI.

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.

RPI General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

RPI General Psychology Rankings

The psychology major at RPI 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.

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in psychology from RPI. This is the #317 most popular school for psychology master’s degree candidates in the country.

Psychology Student Demographics at RPI

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the psychology majors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

RPI General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 67% of psychology bachelor's degrees went to men and 33% went to women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at RPI since its program graduates 46% more men than average.

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

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

RPI 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 NY, the home state for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Managers	16,600	$124,160
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	11,370	$94,140
Psychology Professors	4,840	$99,690
Psychologists	480	$99,640

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 UpstateNYer under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.