2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Psychology & Counseling Major in the Far Western US Region

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Other Psychology & Counseling is the 555th most popular major in the country with 630 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 194 other psychology & counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 other psychology & counseling graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,948 and $20,385 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Psychology & Counseling Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other psychology & counseling. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other psychology & counseling program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Psychology & Counseling Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Psychology & Counseling Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Psychology & Counseling in the Far Western US Region

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Saint Mary's College of California
Moraga, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Mary’s College of California. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Psychology & Counseling Major in the Far Western US Region list. Saint Mary’s College of California is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Moraga, California. It awarded 12 bachelors’s other psychology & counseling degrees in 2021-2022.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. 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%.

Read more about Other Psychology & Counseling at Saint Mary’s College of California

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Pitzer College
Claremont, California

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Psychology & Counseling Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Pitzer College landed the #2 spot on the list. Pitzer is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Claremont, California. It awarded 0 bachelors’s other psychology & counseling degrees in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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%.

Full Pitzer Other Psychology & Counseling Report

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.