General Psychology at The University of Texas at El Paso

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

UTEP is located in El Paso, Texas and approximately 24,879 students attend the school each year.

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.

UTEP General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

UTEP General Psychology Rankings

The psychology major at UTEP 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.

Psychology Student Demographics at UTEP

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the psychology majors at The University of Texas at El Paso.

UTEP General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 21% of psychology bachelor's degrees went to men and 79% went to women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at UTEP since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 46% 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 The University of Texas at El Paso with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	236
White	9
International Students	8
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Concentrations Within General Psychology

General Psychology majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from The University of Texas at El Paso. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Psychology	245

Related Majors

• Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology
• Child Development & Psychology

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 The University of Texas at El Paso.

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 Adrian Garcia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.