Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology at Northwestern University

Every clinical, counseling and applied psychology school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the clinical psychology program at Northwestern University stacks up to those at other schools.

Northwestern is located in Evanston, Illinois and has a total student population of 22,603. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 267 students received their master's degree in clinical psychology.

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

Northwestern Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology

Northwestern Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Rankings

There were 0 student who received their doctoral degrees in clinical psychology, making the school the #254 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Clinical Psychology Student Demographics at Northwestern

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

Northwestern Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Master’s Program

The clinical psychology program at Northwestern awarded 267 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 13% of these degrees went to men with the other 87% going to women.

Of the students who received a clinical psychology master's degree from Northwestern, 57% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the clinical psychology master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 39% of degree recipients. That is 3% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	29
Black or African American	28
Hispanic or Latino	29
White	151
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	26

Related Majors

• General Psychology

Careers That Clinical Psychology Grads May Go Into

A degree in clinical 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 IL, the home state for Northwestern University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	4,700	$75,180
Psychology Professors	1,510	$87,880
Psychologists	260	$87,410

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 Madcoverboy at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.