2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Psychology in the Far Western US Region

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In 2020-2021, 5,125 people earned their degree in clinical psychology, making the major the 139th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 1,973 clinical psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 131 clinical psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.

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

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Clinical Psychology Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region bachelor’s degree clinical psychology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Psychology in the Far Western US Region

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University of California - San Diego
La Jolla, California

#16 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - San Diego. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Clinical Psychology Major in the Far Western US Region. Located in La Jolla, California, this large public school awarded 126 degrees to qualified bachelors’s clinical psychology students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Clinical Psychology at University of California - San Diego

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Mount Saint Mary's University
Los Angeles, California

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Clinical Psychology Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mount Saint Mary’s University landed the #2 spot on the list. Mount Saint Mary’s University is located in Los Angeles, California and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 bachelors’s clinical psychology degrees to qualified students.

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. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% 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 Clinical Psychology at Mount Saint Mary’s University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical 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.