2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Applied Psychology in the New England Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Psychology Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 2,058 people earned their degree in applied psychology, making the major the 282nd most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 177 applied psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 applied psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Psychology Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in applied psychology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their applied psychology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Psychology Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Psychology Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Applied Psychology in the New England Region

1

William James College
Newton, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend William James College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Psychology Major in the New England Region list. William James College is a small school located in Newton, Massachusetts that handed out 2 masters’s applied psychology degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full William James College Applied Psychology Report

2

Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

#10 overall quality in New England

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Psychology Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston University landed the #2 spot on the list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s applied psychology degrees to 15 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Applied Psychology at Boston University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Applied Psychology

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.