Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology at Pepperdine University

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

Pepperdine is located in Malibu, California and has a total student population of 9,554. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 486 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.

Pepperdine Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Degrees Available

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

Pepperdine Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Rankings

There were 32 students who received their doctoral degrees in clinical psychology, making the school the #28 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Clinical Psychology Student Demographics at Pepperdine

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

Pepperdine Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Master’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 486 students earned a master's degree in clinical psychology from Pepperdine. About 84% of these graduates were women and the other 16% were men.

In the clinical psychology master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 51% of degree recipients. That is 15% 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 clinical psychology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	48
Black or African American	40
Hispanic or Latino	133
White	182
International Students	21
Other Races/Ethnicities	62

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 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.