2025 Best Educational Psychology Schools in California
4Colleges in California
99Educational Psychology Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in educational psychology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #309 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Educational Psychology Schools in California ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 99 degrees in educational psychology annually.
Your choice of educational psychology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for educational psychology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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Best Schools for Educational Psychology in California
The schools below may not offer all types of educational psychology degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology at Los Angeles is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in educational psychology. The Chicago School Los Angeles Campus is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Los Angeles.
There were about 26 educational psychology students who graduated with this degree at The Chicago School Los Angeles Campus in the most recent data year.
Loyola Marymount University is a great choice for students interested in a degree in educational psychology. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #222 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Loyola Marymount is a great university overall.
There were roughly 17 educational psychology students who graduated with this degree at Loyola Marymount in the most recent data year.
University of the Pacific is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in educational psychology. Located in the large city of Stockton, Pacific is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 43rd out of 161 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 9 educational psychology students who graduated with this degree at Pacific in the most recent data year.
Northcentral University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in educational psychology. Northcentral University is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of San Diego. This university ranks 128th out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were approximately 14 educational psychology students who graduated with this degree at Northcentral University in the most recent data year.
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).