2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in Pennsylvania

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across Pennsylvania, there were 11 community psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 community psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,136 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in Pennsylvania” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in Pennsylvania”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Community Psychology in Pennsylvania

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Point Park University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Point Park University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in Pennsylvania list. Point Park University is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 masters’s community psychology degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Community Psychology at Point Park

2

Chatham University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Chatham University landed the #2 spot on the list. Chatham University is a small school located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that handed out 0 masters’s community psychology degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Community Psychology at Chatham

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Community Psychology in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Master’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.