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 The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in psychology, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, and more.
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Each year, we produce a number of different types of college rankings to help students decide which school is the best fit for them. The bachelor's program at UT Chattanooga was ranked #569 on College Factual's Best Schools for psychology list. It is also ranked #6 in Tennessee.
Here are some of the other rankings for UT Chattanooga.
Out-of-state part-time undergraduates at UT Chattanooga paid an average of $966 per credit hour in 2019-2020. The average for in-state students was $294 per credit hour. The following table shows the average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $7,836 | $23,954 |
Fees | $1,820 | $1,820 |
Books and Supplies | $1,400 | $1,400 |
On Campus Room and Board | $9,500 | $9,500 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $4,050 | $4,050 |
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You may also want to consider how much in student loans you’ll need when thinking about the overall cost to attend a school. Students who received their bachelor’s degree at UT Chattanooga in Psychology walked away with an average of $24,380 in student debt. That is about the same as the national average of $24,315.
The median early career salary of psychology students who receive their bachelor’s degree from UT Chattanooga is $26,000 per year. That is 7% lower than the national average of $27,969.
Online degrees for the UT Chattanooga 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 UT Chattanooga Online Learning page.
Women made up around 80.0% of the psychology students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is about the same as the countrywide number of 79.3%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in psychology at UT Chattanooga in 2019-2020, 24.5% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 43%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 6 |
Black or African American | 19 |
Hispanic or Latino | 8 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 116 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 6 |
General Psychology students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Psychology | 155 |
*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.