Psychology at St Olaf College

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

St. Olaf is located in Northfield, Minnesota and approximately 2,953 students attend the school each year. Of the 942 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from St Olaf College in 2021, 74 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.

St. Olaf Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

St. Olaf Psychology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks psychology programs across the country. The following shows how St. Olaf performed in these rankings.

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 St. Olaf 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 Popular Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	444
	670
Best Value Psychology Schools	912

Psychology Student Demographics at St. Olaf

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

St. Olaf Psychology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 74 psychology majors earned their bachelor's degree from St. Olaf. Of these graduates, 15% were men and 85% were women.

About 58% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at St. Olaf 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 St Olaf College with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	8
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	43
International Students	10
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

St. Olaf 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 table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at St Olaf College. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Child Development & Psychology	74

Related Majors

• Education
• History
• Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies
• 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 MN, the home state for St Olaf College.

Occupation	Jobs in MN	Average Salary in MN
Managers	9,350	$128,590
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	3,220	$85,860
Psychology Professors	710	$86,380
Psychologists	440	$93,310

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 Daniel Edwins a.k.a. Webmoof of English Wikipedia under License

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