Psychology at Spelman College

If you are interested in studying psychology, you may want to check out the program at Spelman College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Spelman is located in Atlanta, Georgia and has a total student population of 2,207. Of the 485 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Spelman College in 2021, 70 of them were psychology majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Psychology section at the bottom of this page.

Spelman Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Spelman Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the psychology progam at Spelman 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 Spelman is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for 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 Psychology Schools	107
Most Popular Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	463
Best Value Psychology Schools	644
Most Popular Psychology Schools	689
	905
	946

Psychology Student Demographics at Spelman

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

Spelman Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 70 psychology students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Spelman, about 0% were men and 100% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 55% 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 Spelman College with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	68
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Concentrations Within Psychology

If you plan to be a psychology major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Spelman College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Psychology	70

Related Majors

• History
• Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies
• Education
• Social Sciences

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 GA, the home state for Spelman College.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Managers	14,480	$118,060
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	2,100	$89,190
Psychology Professors	420	$75,850
Psychologists	300	$95,940

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 Energy.gov under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.