2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Community Psychology in the New England Region

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Community Psychology is the 529th most popular major in the country with 624 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 44 community psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 28 community psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in community psychology. That schools that top this list have a program in community psychology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree community psychology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Community Psychology in the New England Region

1

Lesley University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lesley University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the New England Region. This small school is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and it awarded 12 bachelors’s community psychology degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Lesley University Community Psychology Report

2

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the New England Region list. University of Maine is a public institution located in Orono, Maine. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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%.

Read full report on Community Psychology at UMaine

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Community 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.