General Psychology at University of Maryland - Baltimore County

If you plan to study general psychology, take a look at what University of Maryland - Baltimore County has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UMBC is located in Baltimore, Maryland and has a total student population of 13,497. In 2021, 374 psychology majors received their bachelor's degree from UMBC.

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.

UMBC General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

UMBC General Psychology Rankings

The psychology major at UMBC 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.

How Much Do Psychology Graduates from UMBC Make?

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at UMBC is $30,408. This is 6% higher than $28,637, which is the national average for all psychology bachelor's degree recipients.

Psychology Student Demographics at UMBC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the psychology majors at University of Maryland - Baltimore County.

UMBC General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 374 students earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from UMBC. About 77% of these graduates were women and the other 23% were men. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at UMBC since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 12% 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 Maryland - Baltimore County with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	62
Black or African American	84
Hispanic or Latino	61
White	130
International Students	13
Other Races/Ethnicities	24

UMBC 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
• 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 MD, the home state for University of Maryland - Baltimore County.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Managers	14,450	$122,050
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	2,090	$79,820
Psychologists	630	$112,330
Psychology Professors	430	$87,850

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 Tim Menzies under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.