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Northwestern University Master’s in Psychology

Psychology is a program of study at Northwestern University. The school offers a master’s degree in the area. We’ve gathered data and other essential information about the master’s degree program in psychology, such as diversity of students, how many students graduated in recent times, and more.

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• Graduate Cost
• Online Learning
• Student Diversity
• Focus Areas
• References

How Much Does a Master’s in Psychology from Northwestern Cost?

Northwestern Graduate Tuition and Fees

During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time graduate students at Northwestern paid an average of $0 per credit hour. No discount was available for in-state students. Information about average full-time graduate student tuition and fees is shown in the table below.

	In State	Out of State
Tuition	$56,067	$56,067
Fees	$500	$500

Does Northwestern Offer an Online Master’s in Psychology?

Northwestern does not offer an online option for its psychology master’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Northwestern Online Learning page.

Northwestern Master’s Student Diversity for Psychology

During the 2019-2020 academic year, there were 195 master’s degrees in psychology handed out to qualified students. The charts and tables below give more information about these students.

Male-to-Female Ratio

Women made up around 79.0% of the psychology students who took home a master’s degree in 2019-2020. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 80.6%.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Around 31.3% of psychology master’s degree recipients at Northwestern in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 35%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	9
Black or African American	17
Hispanic or Latino	23
Native American or Alaska Native	0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0
White	127
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	15

Master’s in Psychology Focus Areas at Northwestern

Psychology students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
General Psychology	12
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	183

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.

• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.