2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Applied Psychology in the Southeast Region

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Applied Psychology is the 282nd most popular major in the country with 2,058 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 544 applied psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 applied psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Applied Psychology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in applied psychology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in applied psychology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Applied Psychology Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree applied psychology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Applied Psychology in the Southeast Region

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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach
Daytona Beach, Florida

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Applied Psychology Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Daytona Beach, Florida, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s applied psychology degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Applied Psychology at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach

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University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Orleans. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Applied Psychology Major in the Southeast Region. New Orleans, Louisiana is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s applied psychology degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Full University of New Orleans Applied Psychology Report

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.