Psychology at Westmont College

What traits are you looking for in a psychology school? To help you decide if Westmont College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's psychology program.

Westmont is located in Santa Barbara, California and approximately 1,226 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 26 students received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Westmont.

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

Westmont Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Westmont Psychology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the psychology progam at Westmont 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 Westmont 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	109
	180
Most Focused Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	312
Best Value Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	696
Best Value Psychology Schools	826
Most Popular Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	899
Most Popular Psychology Schools	1,155

Psychology Student Demographics at Westmont

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the psychology majors at Westmont College.

Westmont Psychology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 26 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Westmont in 2020-2021, 19% were men and 81% were women.

About 58% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in psychology at Westmont 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 Westmont College with a bachelor's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	15
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

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

Concentrations Within Psychology

If you plan to be a psychology major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Westmont College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Psychology	26

Related Majors

• History
• Social Sciences
• Communication & Journalism

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 Westmont College.

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
• Image Credit: By Richard O’Reilly under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.