2025 Best Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 933 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 140,724 bachelor's degrees in psychology to qualified students.

Jump to one of the following sections: * Our Methodology

• Best Bachelor’s Degree Schools List

Choosing a Great Psychology School for Your Bachelor's Degree

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.

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 bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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 psychology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other 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 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 psychology related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Psychology Schools

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 Bachelor's Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don't forget it.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Psychology in the United States

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in psychology. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.

25 Top Schools for a Bachelor's in Psychology

1

Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, TX

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

569 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Texas A&M University - College Station if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in psychology. Located in the midsize city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in psychology from Texas A&M University - College Station

2

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

250 Annual Graduates

Northwestern University is a good choice for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in psychology. Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Evanston.More information about a bachelor’s in psychology from Northwestern University

3

University of Virginia - Main Campus
Charlottesville, VA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

242 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in psychology has to look into University of Virginia - Main Campus. Located in the suburb of Charlottesville, University of Virginia is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in psychology from University of Virginia - Main Campus

4

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

112 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in psychology needs to take a look at University of Notre Dame. Located in the large suburb of Notre Dame, Notre Dame is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in psychology from University of Notre Dame

5

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

166 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in psychology from Columbia University in the City of New York

Rest of the Top 50 Best Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools

26

Binghamton University
Vestal, NY

27

Duke University
Durham, NC

28

University of California - Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA

29

University of California - Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA

30

Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA

31

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

32

Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI

Remaining Award Winners

This list represents the remainder of the schools awarded a Best Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools badge. Showing in this list means the school was ranked in the top 20% of the 933 different United States psychology schools we analyzed.

Additional Noteworthy Schools

Here are some additional great schools for Psychology students that almost earned our Best Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools award.

Psychology by Region

View the Best Psychology Bachelor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

View All Rankings >

Psychology Majors to Study

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.