2023 Most Well Attended Clinical Psychology Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Clinical Psychology Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 “Most Well Attended Clinical Psychology Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in clinical psychology. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in clinical psychology.

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Most Well Attended Clinical Psychology Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Clinical Psychology Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular 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 Most Well Attended Clinical Psychology Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s. Located in La Jolla, California, this large public school awarded 126 degrees to qualified bachelors’s clinical psychology students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. 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%.

Full UCSD Clinical Psychology Report

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Mount Saint Mary's University
Los Angeles, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mount Saint Mary’s University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Clinical Psychology Major in the Far Western US Region for a Bachelor’s list. MSMU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Los Angeles, California. The school has a small population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, 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.

Read full report on Clinical Psychology at Mount Saint Mary’s University

• Most Popular 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.