General Psychology at Roanoke College

Every general psychology school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the psychology program at Roanoke College stacks up to those at other schools.

Roanoke is located in Salem, Virginia and has a total student population of 1,920. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 32 students received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Roanoke.

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.

Roanoke General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Roanoke General Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the psychology progam at Roanoke 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 Roanoke 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	294
Most Focused General Psychology Schools	347
Best General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	357
Best General Psychology Schools	369
	570
Best Value General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	817
Most Popular General Psychology Schools	849

Earnings of Roanoke Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at Roanoke is $27,545. 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 Roanoke

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

Roanoke General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 28% of psychology bachelor's degrees went to men and 72% went to women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at Roanoke since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

About 84% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at Roanoke are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	27
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Roanoke 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 VA, the home state for Roanoke College.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Managers	17,280	$134,500
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	2,680	$80,380
Psychology Professors	1,200	$75,770
Psychologists	400	$97,200
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists	200	$126,220

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 roanokecollege under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.