General Psychology at Pepperdine University

If you plan to study general 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 approximately 9,554 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 185 students received their master's degree in psychology.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Psychology section at the bottom of this page.

Pepperdine General Psychology Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Psychology

Pepperdine General Psychology Rankings

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 General Psychology Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 185 psychology majors earned their master's degree from Pepperdine. Of these graduates, 22% were men and 78% were women.

In the psychology master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 46% of degree recipients. That is 11% 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	14
Black or African American	18
Hispanic or Latino	41
White	71
International Students	20
Other Races/Ethnicities	21

Related Majors

• Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology

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.