Personality Psychology degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #1267 out of the 1506 majors we look at each year. This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for personality psychology students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 18 degrees in personality psychology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Personality Psychology Schools list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Personality Psychology in the United States
The schools below may not offer all types of personality psychology degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
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).