Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology at Palo Alto University

If you are interested in studying clinical, counseling and applied psychology, you may want to check out the program at Palo Alto University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Pacific Graduate School of Psychology is located in Palo Alto, California and approximately 1,163 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 86 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.

Pacific Graduate School of Psychology Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Degrees Available

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

Pacific Graduate School of Psychology Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Rankings

There were 91 students who received their doctoral degrees in clinical psychology, making the school the #5 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Clinical Psychology Student Demographics at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology

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

Pacific Graduate School of Psychology Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Master’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 86 students earned a master's degree in clinical psychology from Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. About 77% of these graduates were women and the other 23% were men. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 18% men graduate in clinical psychology each year. Pacific Graduate School of Psychology does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 5% more men than average.

In the clinical psychology master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 43% of degree recipients. That is 7% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	36
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	37

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 CA, the home state for Palo Alto 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.