General Psychology at Virginia Military Institute

If you are interested in studying general 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 General Psychology section at the bottom of this page.

VMI General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

VMI General Psychology Rankings

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

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 VMI 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
Best General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	6
Best General Psychology Schools	7
	18
	22
Most Focused General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	133
Most Focused General Psychology Schools	152
Best Value General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	305
Best Value General Psychology Schools	329
Most Popular General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	603
Most Popular General Psychology Schools	756

Earnings of VMI Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at VMI is $38,487. This is 34% higher than $28,637, which is the national average for all psychology bachelor's degree recipients.

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 General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 39 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Psychology from VMI in 2020-2021, 85% were men and 15% were 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.

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 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.