Psychology at Biola University

If you plan to study psychology, take a look at what Biola University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Biola is located in La Mirada, California and has a total student population of 5,815. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 22 students received their master's degree in psychology.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Psychology section at the bottom of this page.

Biola Psychology Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Psychology
• Doctorate Degree in Psychology

Online Classes Are Available at Biola

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Biola offers distance education options for psychology at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Biola Psychology Rankings

There were 23 students who received their doctoral degrees in psychology, making the school the #71 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Psychology Student Demographics at Biola

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the psychology majors at Biola University.

Biola Psychology Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 18% of psychology master's degrees went to men and 82% went to women.

In the psychology master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 59% of degree recipients. That is 23% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Biola University with a master's in psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	8
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	9
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Concentrations Within Psychology

If you plan to be a psychology major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Biola University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	45

Related Majors

• Family, Consumer & Human Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Communication & Journalism
• Education

Careers That Psychology Grads May Go Into

A degree in psychology can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for Biola University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	17,310	$108,350
Psychology Professors	4,530	$117,990
Psychologists	2,080	$114,860
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists	40	$149,820

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Robert J. Boser under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.