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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 624 people earned their degree in community psychology, making the major the 529th most popular in the United States.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 349 community psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major” ranking looked at 13 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in community psychology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their community psychology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree community psychology students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clayton State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major list. Clayton State University is a medium-sized school located in Morrow, Georgia that handed out 104 bachelors’s community psychology degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Washington - Bothell Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major. University of Washington - Bothell Campus is a public institution located in Bothell, Washington. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 83 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Gardner - Webb University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major. Gardner - Webb is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. The school has a small population, and it awarded 32 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Gardner - Webb University Community Psychology Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pacific Oaks College. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major. Pacific Oaks College is a small school located in Pasadena, California that handed out 10 bachelors’s community psychology degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montana State University - Billings. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major list. Montana State University - Billings is a public institution located in Billings, Montana. The school has a small population, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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Rogers State University ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major list. Rogers State University is a small school located in Claremore, Oklahoma that handed out 13 bachelors’s community psychology degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Saint Cloud State University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major ranking. Saint Cloud State University is a fairly large public school situated in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. It awarded 55 bachelors’s community psychology degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.6% 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%.
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Lesley University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major ranking, coming in at #8. This small school is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and it awarded 12 bachelors’s community psychology degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.2% 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 undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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University of Maine came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major ranking. This fairly large school is located in Orono, Maine, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s community psychology degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Southwest Minnesota State University landed the #10 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major ranking. Southwest Minnesota State University is located in Marshall, Minnesota and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s community psychology degrees to qualified students.
Full Southwest Minnesota State University Community Psychology Report
University of Miami came in at #11 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major ranking. U Miami is located in Coral Gables, Florida and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s community psychology degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.
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Northwestern University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major ranking, coming in at #12. Northwestern is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Evanston, Illinois. It awarded 0 bachelors’s community psychology degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%.
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With a ranking of #12, Point Park University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major list. Point Park is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It awarded 8 bachelors’s community psychology degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% 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 Point Park Community Psychology Report
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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
- *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.