2024 Best General Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region
99Colleges in the Far Western US Region
19,336Bachelor's Degrees
General Psychology is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #3 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 99 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 19,336 bachelor's degrees in general psychology to qualified students.
Choosing a Great General Psychology School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The psychology bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general psychology students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general psychology students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general psychology related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general psychology students working on their bachelor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study General Psychology in the Far Western US Region
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for general psychology students seeking a a bachelor's degree. Only those schools that rank in the top 15% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
14 Top Far Western US Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Psychology
Here are some additional great schools for General Psychology students in the Far Western US Region that almost earned our Best General Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region award.
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Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).