2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Community Psychology in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 624 people earned their degree in community psychology, making the major the 529th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 214 community psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 community psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Community Psychology in the Southeast Region

1

University of West Georgia
Carrollton, Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of West Georgia. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southeast Region list. University of West Georgia is a fairly large school located in Carrollton, Georgia that handed out 3 doctorate’s community psychology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Community Psychology at University of West Georgia

2

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

#2 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Southeast Region. This fairly large school is located in Nashville, Tennessee, and it awarded 3 doctorate’s community psychology degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.

Read full report on Community Psychology at Vanderbilt

• Most Focused Doctor’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.