The main focus area for this major is General Psychology. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
General Psychology is a major offered under the psychology program of study at Iowa State University. Here, you’ll find out more about the major bachelor’s degree program in psychology, including such details as the number of graduates, ethnicity of students, related majors and concentrations, and more.
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In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. Iowa State is in the top 10% of the country for psychology. More specifically it was ranked #69 out of 1,110 schools by College Factual. It is also ranked #2 in Iowa.
Here are some of the other rankings for Iowa State.
During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time undergraduate students at Iowa State paid an average of $968 per credit hour if they came to the school from out-of-state. In-state students paid a discounted rate of $336 per credit hour. Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $8,042 | $23,230 |
Fees | $1,274 | $1,274 |
Books and Supplies | $1,001 | $1,001 |
On Campus Room and Board | $9,193 | $9,193 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $2,430 | $2,430 |
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One way to think about how much a school will cost is to look at how much in student loans that you have to take out to get your degree. Psychology students who received their bachelor’s degree at Iowa State took out an average of $25,755 in student loans. That is 6% higher than the national average of $24,315.
psychology who receive their bachelor’s degree from Iowa State make an average of $32,391 a year during the early days of their career. That is 16% higher than the national average of $27,969.
Online degrees for the Iowa State psychology bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Iowa State Online Learning page.
Women made up around 73.6% of the psychology students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is less than the nationwide number of 79.3%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in psychology at Iowa State in 2019-2020, 20.8% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 43%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 3 |
Black or African American | 8 |
Hispanic or Latino | 23 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 141 |
International Students | 9 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 13 |
General Psychology students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Psychology | 197 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.