General Psychology at University of South Carolina - Upstate

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

USC Upstate is located in Spartanburg, South Carolina and has a total student population of 6,038. In 2021, 90 psychology majors received their bachelor's degree from USC Upstate.

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.

USC Upstate General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

USC Upstate General Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the psychology progam at USC Upstate compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The psychology major at USC Upstate 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused General Psychology Schools	319
Best Value General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	335
Best Value General Psychology Schools	364
Most Popular General Psychology Schools	428
	448
Best General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	479

Earnings of USC Upstate Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at USC Upstate is $28,634. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $28,637 for all psychology students.

Psychology Student Demographics at USC Upstate

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the psychology majors at University of South Carolina - Upstate.

USC Upstate General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

The psychology program at USC Upstate awarded 90 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 16% of these degrees went to men with the other 84% going to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 4% 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 South Carolina - Upstate with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	35
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	38
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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

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 SC, the home state for University of South Carolina - Upstate.

Occupation	Jobs in SC	Average Salary in SC
Managers	1,760	$100,890
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	1,230	$63,050
Psychology Professors	330	$82,630
Psychologists	130	$92,560

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 Dfscgt21 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.