Psychology at Fisher College

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

Fisher College is located in Boston, Massachusetts and approximately 1,419 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 15 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.

Fisher College Psychology Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Psychology

Online Classes Are Available at Fisher College

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? Fisher College offers distance education options for psychology at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

Fisher College Psychology Rankings

Psychology Student Demographics at Fisher College

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

Fisher College Psychology Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 13% of psychology master's degrees went to men and 87% went to women.

Of the students who received a psychology master's degree from Fisher College, 53% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

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

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 table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Fisher College. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Psychology	15

Related Majors

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 MA, the home state for Fisher College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Managers	8,660	$131,450
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	4,050	$86,490
Psychology Professors	1,490	$97,690
Psychologists	980	$83,550
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists	100	$75,660

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 Chriss under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.