2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Community Psychology in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 697 people earned their degree in community psychology, making the major the 529th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 251 community psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 community psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in community psychology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their community psychology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The community psychology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southeast Region”.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Community Psychology in the Southeast Region

1

University of West Georgia
Carrollton, Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of West Georgia. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Carrollton, Georgia, this fairly large public school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s community psychology students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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 Community Psychology at University of West Georgia

2

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

#2 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vanderbilt University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southeast Region list. Vanderbilt University is located in Nashville, Tennessee and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 8 doctorate’s community psychology degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Community Psychology at Vanderbilt

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.