Health/Medical Psychology at University of California - San Diego

If you plan to study health/medical psychology, take a look at what University of California - San Diego has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UCSD is located in La Jolla, California and has a total student population of 39,576.

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

UCSD Health/Medical Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Health/Medical Psychology

UCSD Health/Medical Psychology Rankings

The health/medical psychology major at UCSD is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Health/Medical 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.

Health/Medical Psychology Student Demographics at UCSD

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

UCSD Health/Medical Psychology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 30% of health/medical psychology bachelor's degrees went to men and 70% went to women. The typical health/medical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 16% men. So male students are more repesented at UCSD since its program graduates 13% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 41% more racial-ethnic minorities in its health/medical 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 health/medical psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	13
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	15
White	10
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Related Majors

• Clinical Psychology

Careers That Health/Medical Psychology Grads May Go Into

A degree in health/medical 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

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.