by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Psychology Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Social Psychology is the 438th most popular major in the country with 689 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 540 social psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,724 and $23,030 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Psychology Major” ranking, we looked at 12 colleges that offer a degree in social psychology. That schools that top this list have a program in social psychology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree social psychology students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Park University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Psychology Major. Located in Parkville, Missouri, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 178 degrees to qualified bachelors’s social psychology students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Trinity Washington University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Psychology Major. This small school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 31 bachelors’s social psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Social Psychology at Trinity Washington University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Irvine. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Psychology Major list. University of California - Irvine is located in Irvine, California and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 148 bachelors’s social psychology degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwest Missouri State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Psychology Major list. Northwest is a medium-sized school located in Maryville, Missouri that handed out 42 bachelors’s social psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
University of Massachusetts - Boston came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Psychology Major ranking. This fairly large school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 21 bachelors’s social psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Maryville University of Saint Louis landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Psychology Major ranking. Maryville University of Saint Louis is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s social psychology degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Augsburg University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Psychology Major ranking. Augsburg University is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s social psychology degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
University of California - San Diego landed the #9 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Psychology Major ranking. This large school is located in La Jolla, California, and it awarded 38 bachelors’s social psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Social Psychology at University of California - San Diego
Western Michigan University landed the #10 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Psychology Major ranking. WMU is a fairly large school located in Kalamazoo, Michigan that handed out 2 bachelors’s social psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
University of Cincinnati - Main Campus did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Psychology Major ranking, coming in at #11. Cincinnati, Ohio is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s social psychology degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Social Psychology at University of Cincinnati - Main Campus
Bennington College landed the #11 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Psychology Major ranking. Bennington College is a small school located in Bennington, Vermont that handed out 0 bachelors’s social psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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