General Psychology at Southwestern University

What traits are you looking for in a psychology school? To help you decide if Southwestern University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's psychology program.

Southwestern is located in Georgetown, Texas and approximately 1,506 students attend the school each year. Of the 364 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Southwestern University in 2021, 40 of them were general psychology majors.

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.

Southwestern General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Southwestern General Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the psychology progam at Southwestern 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 Southwestern 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	79
Most Focused General Psychology Schools	95
Best General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	356
Best General Psychology Schools	367
Most Popular General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	592
	707
	726
Most Popular General Psychology Schools	740
Best Value General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	803
Best Value General Psychology Schools	853

Earnings of Southwestern Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at Southwestern is $25,962. 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 Southwestern

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

Southwestern General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 40 psychology majors earned their bachelor's degree from Southwestern. Of these graduates, 30% were men and 70% were women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at Southwestern since its program graduates 10% more men than average.

About 63% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at Southwestern 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 Southwestern University with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	25
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Southwestern 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 TX, the home state for Southwestern University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Managers	20,710	$122,130
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	6,680	$73,650
Psychology Professors	3,080	$78,270
Psychologists	740	$90,780

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 Matthew Rutledge under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.