Social Psychology at University of California - San Diego

What traits are you looking for in a social psychology school? To help you decide if University of California - San Diego is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's social psychology program.

UCSD is located in La Jolla, California and approximately 39,576 students attend the school each year.

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

UCSD Social Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Psychology

UCSD Social Psychology Rankings

The social psychology major at UCSD is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Social 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.

Social Psychology Student Demographics at UCSD

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the social psychology majors at University of California - San Diego.

UCSD Social Psychology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 39% of social psychology bachelor's degrees went to men and 61% went to women. The typical social psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% men. So male students are more repesented at UCSD since its program graduates 14% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 21% more racial-ethnic minorities in its social psychology bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of California - San Diego with a bachelor's in social psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	8
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	7
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Related Majors

• Experimental Psychology
• Cognitive Psychology & Psycholinguistics
• Developmental & Child Psychology

Careers That Social Psychology Grads May Go Into

A degree in social 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 CA, the home state for University of California - San Diego.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Psychology Professors	4,530	$117,990
Psychologists	2,080	$114,860

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 Znode at English Wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.