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Best Colleges for Psychology

Top psychology programs ranked by graduate earnings, completion rates, and actual cost. Federal data. No paid rankings.

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These rankings filter to schools with psychology programs, then rank by our 5-component composite score using verified federal data. Rankings use a composite score: graduate earnings (28%), graduation rate (25%), social mobility via Pell Grant share (20%), debt burden (15%), and net cost for low-income students (12%). Where a school has not reported one of these, that component is dropped and the remaining weights are rescaled rather than filled in with an estimate. Only 4-year non-profit schools with sufficient data qualify.

→Earnings: Median annual earnings 10 years after enrollment. Source: College Scorecard.
→Graduation rate: Full-time first-time students completing within 150% of normal time. Source: IPEDS.
→Net price: Average annual cost after all grants and scholarships. Source: IPEDS.
→Social mobility: Share of students receiving Pell Grants, a direct measure of access for low-income students. Source: IPEDS.
→Debt burden: Median federal loan debt at graduation. Source: College Scorecard.

Top 10 Psychology Schools (2026)

Ranked by composite: earnings, graduation rate, social mobility, debt, affordability.

#	School	Accept	Net Price/yr	Grad Rate	Earnings (10yr)
1	CUNY Bernard M Baruch College New York, NY	47.5%	$4,326	72%	$75,971
2	Claremont McKenna College Claremont, CA	9.6%	$33,895	91%	$104,736
3	Brown University Providence, RI	5.4%	$26,256	96%	$93,487
4	University of California-Davis Davis, CA	41.8%	$17,270	86%	$80,838
5	Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA	14%	$23,055	94%	$94,810
6	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	9%	$14,512	93%	$82,511
7	Wellesley College Wellesley, MA	14%	$22,174	92%	$84,803
8	CUNY City College New York, NY	60%	$4,664	57%	$66,039
9	Bentley University Waltham, MA	45.1%	$45,802	87%	$120,959
10	California State University-Fullerton Fullerton, CA	90.5%	$7,064	70%	$62,951

500 schools with Psychology programs in dataset. Top 10 shown. Data: IPEDS + College Scorecard. Updated annually.

All 500 Colleges in the Dataset

The ranking above shows the top 10 by composite score. Every school in the full dataset is listed here so you can explore beyond the top results.

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