2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Psychology in Delaware

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With 195,678 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, psychology is the 8th most popular major in the United States. In 2019-2020, psychology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,611 and had an average of $25,989 in loans still to pay off.

Across Delaware, there were 417 psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,998 and $25,890 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,559 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Delaware” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in psychology. That schools that top this list have a program in psychology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Delaware

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

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

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Goldey - Beacom College
Wilmington, Delaware

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Delaware that were part of this year’s ranking, Goldey - Beacom College landed the #1 spot on the list. Goldey - Beacom College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Wilmington, Delaware. It awarded 4 masters’s psychology degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Goldey - Beacom College Psychology Report

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University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware

#1 overall quality in Delaware

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Delaware. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Delaware. University of Delaware is a large public school situated in Newark, Delaware. It awarded 11 masters’s psychology degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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%.

Full UD Psychology Report

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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

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