Psychology at Pepperdine University

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

Pepperdine is located in Malibu, California and has a total student population of 9,554. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 671 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.

Pepperdine Psychology Degrees Available

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

Pepperdine Psychology Rankings

There were 32 students who received their doctoral degrees in psychology, making the school the #45 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Psychology Student Demographics at Pepperdine

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

Pepperdine Psychology Master’s Program

Of the 671 students who earned a master's degree in Psychology from Pepperdine in 2020-2021, 18% were men and 82% were women.

In the psychology master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 50% of degree recipients. That is 14% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	62
Black or African American	58
Hispanic or Latino	174
White	253
International Students	41
Other Races/Ethnicities	83

Concentrations Within Psychology

The following psychology concentations are available at Pepperdine University. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Pepperdine University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	518
General Psychology	185

Related Majors

• Communication & Journalism
• Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies
• 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 Pepperdine 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 Infratec~commonswiki under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.