General Psychology at Vanguard University of Southern California

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

Vanguard is located in Costa Mesa, California and approximately 2,289 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 66 students received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Vanguard.

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.

Vanguard General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Vanguard General Psychology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks psychology programs across the country. The following shows how Vanguard performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The psychology major at Vanguard 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	92
	197
	205
Best General Psychology Schools	305
Most Popular General Psychology Schools	537
Best Value General Psychology Schools	664

Earnings of Vanguard Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at Vanguard is $31,534. This is 10% higher than $28,637, which is the national average for all psychology bachelor's degree recipients.

Psychology Student Demographics at Vanguard

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

Vanguard General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

The psychology program at Vanguard awarded 66 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 20% of these degrees went to men with the other 80% going to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 15% 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 Vanguard University of Southern California with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	30
White	23
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

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

Related Majors

• 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 Vanguard University of Southern California.

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.