General Psychology at Western Connecticut State University

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

WestConn is located in Danbury, Connecticut and approximately 5,246 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 80 students received a bachelor's degree in psychology from WestConn.

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.

WestConn General Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

WestConn General Psychology Rankings

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

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 WestConn 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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools	321
Most Popular General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	375
	434

Earnings of WestConn Psychology Graduates

The median salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor's degree at WestConn is $28,573. This is less than $28,637, which is the national average of all psychology majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Psychology Student Demographics at WestConn

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the psychology majors at Western Connecticut State University.

WestConn General Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 80 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Psychology from WestConn in 2020-2021, 20% were men and 80% were women.

About 56% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at WestConn 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 Western Connecticut State University with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	19
White	45
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

WestConn 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 CT, the home state for Western Connecticut State University.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT
Managers	6,590	$129,730
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	1,720	$90,870
Psychology Professors	770	$88,070
Psychologists	190	$96,180

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 Andrew Gusciora under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.