General Psychology at University of California - San Diego

What traits are you looking for in a 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 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, 216 of them were general psychology majors.

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.

UCSD General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

UCSD General Psychology Rankings

The psychology major at UCSD 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.

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in psychology from UCSD. This is the #317 most popular school for psychology master’s degree candidates in the country.

Earnings of UCSD Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at UCSD is $28,185. This is less than $28,637, which is the national average of all psychology majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Psychology Student Demographics at UCSD

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

UCSD General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 216 psychology students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from UCSD, about 25% were men and 75% were women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at UCSD since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 14% 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 University of California - San Diego with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	56
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	54
White	61
International Students	21
Other Races/Ethnicities	14

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

Related Majors

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

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