General Psychology at Saint Mary’s College of California

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

SMC is located in Moraga, California and approximately 3,439 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 44 students received a bachelor's degree in psychology from SMC.

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.

SMC General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

SMC General Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the psychology progam at SMC 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 SMC 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
	372
Most Popular General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	562
Best Value General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	841
Best Value General Psychology Schools	889
Most Focused General Psychology Schools	981

How Much Do Psychology Graduates from SMC Make?

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at SMC is $29,907. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 4% higher than the national average of $28,637 for all psychology bachelor's degree recipients.

Psychology Student Demographics at SMC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the psychology majors at Saint Mary’s College of California.

SMC General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 44 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Psychology from SMC in 2020-2021, 36% were men and 64% were women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at SMC since its program graduates 16% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% 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 Saint Mary's College of California with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	18
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

SMC 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
• Other Psychology
• Clinical, Counseling & Applied 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 CA, the home state for Saint Mary's College of California.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	17,310	$108,350
Psychology Professors	4,530	$117,990
Psychologists	2,080	$114,860
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists	40	$149,820

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 Smcj0001 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.