2024 Best General Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Delaware

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 means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Delaware to determine which ones were the best for general psychology students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 190 bachelor's degrees in general psychology during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

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.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for general psychology to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
• 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 colleges for general psychology students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank General Psychology Schools

The psychology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Delaware.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

 

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study General Psychology in Delaware

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in general psychology.

Top Delaware Schools for a Bachelor's in Psychology

1

Wilmington University
New Castle, DE

96 Annual Graduates

$31,574 Median Starting Salary

$24,924 Median Student Debt

Wilmington University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in general psychology. Located in the suburb of New Castle, Wilmington University is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the psychology program state that they receive average early career earnings of $31,574.

More information about a bachelor’s in general psychology from Wilmington University

2

Delaware State University
Dover, DE

58 Annual Graduates

$30,670 Median Starting Salary

$26,000 Median Student Debt

Delaware State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in general psychology. Located in the small city of Dover, Del State is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the psychology program make around $30,670 in the first couple years of their career.

More information about a bachelor’s in general psychology from Delaware State University

Best General Psychology Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best General Psychology Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	275	9,810
Pennsylvania	274	4,092
Maryland	207	2,451
New Jersey	193	3,154
District of Columbia	126	376

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Rankings in Majors Related to Psychology

General Psychology is one of 24 different types of Psychology programs to choose from.

Psychology Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Psychology	190

Most Popular Majors Related to Psychology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Child Development & Psychology	203
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	3

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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to BruceBlaus. More about our data sources and methodologies.