Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology at University of California - San Diego

What traits are you looking for in a clinical 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 clinical psychology program.

UCSD is located in La Jolla, California and has a total student population of 39,576. Of the 9,086 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of California - San Diego in 2021, 165 of them were clinical, counseling and applied psychology majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology section at the bottom of this page.

UCSD Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Clinical Psychology
• Doctorate Degree in Clinical Psychology

UCSD Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the clinical psychology progam at UCSD compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The clinical psychology major at UCSD is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Clinical, Counseling & Applied 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
	69
Most Popular Clinical & Counseling Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools	137
Most Focused Clinical & Counseling Psychology Schools	349

Earnings of UCSD Clinical Psychology Graduates

The median salary of clinical psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at UCSD is $29,313. This is less than $31,952, which is the national average of all clinical psychology majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Clinical Psychology Student Demographics at UCSD

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

UCSD Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 165 clinical psychology students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from UCSD, about 27% were men and 73% were women. The typical clinical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 18% men. So male students are more repesented at UCSD since its program graduates 9% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 32% more racial-ethnic minorities in its clinical 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 clinical psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	57
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	43
White	33
International Students	15
Other Races/Ethnicities	17

UCSD also has a doctoral program available in clinical psychology. In 2021, 8 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Child Development & Psychology
• Other Psychology
• General Psychology

Careers That Clinical Psychology Grads May Go Into

A degree in clinical 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
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	17,310	$108,350
Psychology Professors	4,530	$117,990
Psychologists	2,080	$114,860
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists	40	$149,820

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.