Psychology at The College of New Jersey

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

TCNJ is located in Ewing, New Jersey and has a total student population of 7,783. Of the 1,719 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from The College of New Jersey in 2021, 108 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.

TCNJ Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

TCNJ Psychology Rankings

The psychology major at TCNJ 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.

Psychology Student Demographics at TCNJ

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

TCNJ Psychology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 14% of psychology bachelor's degrees went to men and 86% went to women.

About 58% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at TCNJ 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 The College of New Jersey with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	14
Black or African American	11
Hispanic or Latino	15
White	63
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

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

Concentrations Within Psychology

The following psychology concentations are available at The College of New Jersey. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from The College of New Jersey. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Psychology	108

Related Majors

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

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 NJ, the home state for The College of New Jersey.

Occupation	Jobs in NJ	Average Salary in NJ
Managers	18,370	$138,820
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	3,760	$98,470
Psychology Professors	1,150	$99,670
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists	30	$119,700

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 Tomwsulcer under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.