2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Psychology Major in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Psychology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 2,683 people earned their degree in other psychology, making the major the 179th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, other psychology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $43,731 and had an average of $19,707 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 93 other psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,834 and $27,000 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 other psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Psychology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in other psychology. That schools that top this list have a program in other psychology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The other 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 “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Psychology Major in the Southeast Region”.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree other psychology students.

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Other Psychology in the Southeast Region

1

University of Holy Cross
New Orleans, Louisiana

$48,398 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Holy Cross. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Psychology Major in the Southeast Region list. UHC is a small private not-for-profit school situated in New Orleans, Louisiana. It awarded 17 doctorate’s other psychology degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full University of Holy Cross Other Psychology Report

2

University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Orleans. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Psychology Major in the Southeast Region. This medium-sized school is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s other psychology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Other Psychology at UNO

3

Clemson University
Clemson, South Carolina

#17 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Clemson University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Psychology Major in the Southeast Region. Clemson, South Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s other psychology degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Other Psychology at Clemson University

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Other 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nevit Dilmen.