Experimental Psychology at Yale University

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

Yale is located in New Haven, Connecticut and approximately 12,060 students attend the school each year.

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

Yale Experimental Psychology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Experimental Psychology
• Master’s Degree in Experimental Psychology

Yale Experimental Psychology Rankings

The experimental psychology major at Yale is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Experimental 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.

There were 16 students who received their doctoral degrees in experimental psychology, making the school the #3 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Experimental Psychology Student Demographics at Yale

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the experimental psychology majors at Yale University.

Yale Experimental Psychology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 31% of experimental psychology bachelor's degrees went to men and 69% went to women. The typical experimental psychology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% men. So male students are more repesented at Yale since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 18% more racial-ethnic minorities in its experimental psychology bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	16
Black or African American	11
Hispanic or Latino	10
White	27
International Students	7
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Yale Experimental Psychology Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 18% of experimental psychology master's degrees went to men and 83% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Yale University with a master's in experimental psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	13
International Students	16
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Related Majors

Careers That Experimental Psychology Grads May Go Into

A degree in experimental 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 Yale University.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT
Managers	6,590	$129,730
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 Jdbrandt under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.