General Psychology at University of Puget Sound

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

Puget Sound is located in Tacoma, Washington and approximately 2,130 students attend the school each year.

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.

Puget Sound General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Puget Sound General Psychology Rankings

The psychology major at Puget Sound 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.

Psychology Student Demographics at Puget Sound

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

Puget Sound General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 26% of psychology bachelor's degrees went to men and 74% went to women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at Puget Sound since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

About 51% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at Puget Sound are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Puget Sound with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	22
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

Concentrations Within General Psychology

The following psychology concentations are available at University of Puget Sound. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Puget Sound. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Psychology	51

Related Majors

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 WA, the home state for University of Puget Sound.

Occupation	Jobs in WA	Average Salary in WA
Managers	11,280	$125,490
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	2,330	$73,840
Psychology Professors	860	$68,420
Psychologists	370	$102,760

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 Joe Mabel under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.