2024 Best Psychology Master's Degree Schools in Montana

If you plan on getting your master's degree in psychology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #7 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Montana to determine which ones were the best for psychology students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 39 master's degrees in psychology during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Master’s Degree Schools List

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to psychology students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other psychology students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for psychology to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized psychology related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for psychology students working on their master's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Psychology Master's Degree Schools in Montana list to help you make the college decision.

 

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Psychology in Montana

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in psychology.

Top Montana Schools for a Master's in Psychology

1

Montana State University
Bozeman, MT

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

20 Annual Graduates

Montana State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in psychology. Located in the town of Bozeman, MSU Bozeman is a public university with a large student population.More information about a master’s in psychology from Montana State University

2

The University of Montana
Missoula, MT

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

12 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in psychology has to look into The University of Montana. UM is a moderately-sized public university located in the city of Missoula.More information about a master’s in psychology from The University of Montana

Best Psychology Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

Explore all the Best Psychology Schools in the Rocky Mountains Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Colorado	30	980
Utah	30	156
Idaho	25	24
Wyoming	23	7

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Psychology Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	28
General Psychology	11

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 Nevit Dilmen. More about our data sources and methodologies.