General Psychology at Santa Clara University

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

SCU is located in Santa Clara, California and approximately 8,616 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 104 psychology majors received their bachelor's degree from SCU.

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.

SCU General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

SCU General Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the psychology progam at SCU 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 SCU 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
	6
	8
Most Popular General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	278
Most Focused General Psychology Schools	929

Earnings of SCU Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at SCU is $50,081. This is 75% higher than $28,637, which is the national average for all psychology bachelor's degree recipients.

Psychology Student Demographics at SCU

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

SCU General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 104 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Psychology from SCU in 2020-2021, 18% were men and 82% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 9% 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 Santa Clara University with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	15
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	27
White	42
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

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

Related Majors

• 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 Santa Clara University.

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 Arnaudh under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.