If you plan on getting your master's degree in other psychology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #75 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Other Psychology Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 142 master's degrees in other psychology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Other Psychology School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of other psychology for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality other psychology program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on other psychology students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other other psychology students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt other psychology students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized other psychology related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for other psychology students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Other Psychology Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Other Psychology in the Far Western US Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in other psychology.
Top Far Western US Region Schools for a Master's in Other Psychology
It is hard to beat Azusa Pacific University if you wish to pursue a master's degree in other psychology. Located in the suburb of Azusa, Azusa Pacific is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.
Those other psychology students who get their master's degree from Azusa Pacific University earn $11,222 more than the average other psychology student.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).