Psychology at Fielding Graduate University

If you are interested in studying psychology, you may want to check out the program at Fielding Graduate University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Fielding is located in Santa Barbara, California and has a total student population of 1,071. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 85 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.

Fielding Psychology Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at Fielding

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.

Fielding does offer online education options in psychology for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Master’s Degree

Fielding Psychology Rankings

There were 74 students who received their doctoral degrees in psychology, making the school the #13 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Psychology Student Demographics at Fielding

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

Fielding Psychology Master’s Program

Of the 85 students who graduated with a master’s in psychology from Fielding in 2021, 16% were men and 84% were women.

Of the students who received a psychology master's degree from Fielding, 53% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the psychology master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 38% of degree recipients. That is 2% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	12
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	45
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	13

Concentrations Within Psychology

Psychology majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Fielding Graduate University. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	205

Related Majors

• Education
• Family, Consumer & Human Sciences

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 Fielding Graduate 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

More about our data sources and methodologies.