Psychology at Virginia Military Institute

If you are interested in studying psychology, you may want to check out the program at Virginia Military Institute. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

VMI is located in Lexington, Virginia and approximately 1,698 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 39 students received a bachelor's degree in psychology from VMI.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Psychology section at the bottom of this page.

VMI Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

VMI Psychology Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The psychology major at VMI is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for 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
Best Psychology Schools	12
Best Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	12
	27
	29
Most Focused Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	169
Most Focused Psychology Schools	311
Best Value Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	315
Best Value Psychology Schools	398
Most Popular Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	701
Most Popular Psychology Schools	974

Psychology Student Demographics at VMI

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the psychology majors at Virginia Military Institute.

VMI Psychology Bachelor’s Program

The psychology program at VMI awarded 39 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 85% of these degrees went to men with the other 15% going to women. The typical psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at VMI since its program graduates 64% more men than average.

About 69% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at VMI are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Virginia Military Institute with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	27
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

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

Concentrations Within Psychology

Psychology majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Virginia Military Institute. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Psychology	39

Related Majors

• History
• Social Sciences

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 VA, the home state for Virginia Military Institute.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Managers	17,280	$134,500
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	2,680	$80,380
Psychology Professors	1,200	$75,770
Psychologists	400	$97,200
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists	200	$126,220

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 Kbog under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.