General Psychology at Spelman College

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

Spelman is located in Atlanta, Georgia and approximately 2,207 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 70 psychology majors received their bachelor's degree from Spelman.

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.

Spelman General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Spelman General Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the psychology progam at Spelman 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 Spelman 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	18
Most Focused General Psychology Schools	27
Most Popular General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	407
Best Value General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	476
Best General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	488
Best Value General Psychology Schools	517
Most Popular General Psychology Schools	518
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	863

Earnings of Spelman Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at Spelman is $23,944. 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 Spelman

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

Spelman General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 70 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Psychology from Spelman in 2020-2021, 0% were men and 100% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 53% 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.

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 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.