If you graduate from college with a bachelor's degree in psychology, you cannot call yourself a psychologist nor are you yet prepared to function as one. Nevertheless, if you have chosen your courses carefully, you will be able to find jobs that use your knowledge and permit you to increase it. In fact, many kinds and levels of interesting work are open to a psychologist with a master's degree. Within each of these fields, some psychologists are concerned primarily with research and theory while others are involved in practice and application. College and university teaching is usually combined with research, and it may also be combined with consulting, clinical, or other applied work.
More psychologists work in institutions of higher education than in any other kind of organization.
The federal government is the next largest employer, followed by schools, and business and industry. Salaries for psychologists with the doctorate are roughly comparable to those of other similarly trained scientists. For information on preparing for graduate school, click here . Psychology is one of the fastest growing fields of study at Nichols College and across the nation. We hope you will share our excitement for our dynamic and developing program.