General Psychology at University of Massachusetts - Boston

If you are interested in studying general psychology, you may want to check out the program at University of Massachusetts - Boston. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UMass Boston is located in Boston, Massachusetts and has a total student population of 16,259. Of the 2,801 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Massachusetts - Boston in 2021, 294 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.

UMass Boston General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

UMass Boston General Psychology Rankings

The psychology major at UMass Boston 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.

Earnings of UMass Boston Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at UMass Boston is $35,570. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 24% higher than the national average of $28,637 for all psychology bachelor's degree recipients.

Psychology Student Demographics at UMass Boston

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the psychology majors at University of Massachusetts - Boston.

UMass Boston General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 294 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Psychology from UMass Boston in 2020-2021, 22% were men and 78% were women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at UMass Boston since its program graduates 1% 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 Massachusetts - Boston with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	33
Black or African American	63
Hispanic or Latino	73
White	98
International Students	8
Other Races/Ethnicities	19

UMass Boston 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 MA, the home state for University of Massachusetts - Boston.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Managers	8,660	$131,450
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	4,050	$86,490
Psychology Professors	1,490	$97,690
Psychologists	980	$83,550
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists	100	$75,660

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 Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.