Nearly 50 percent of all psychology graduates at the baccalaureate level will seek a full-time job immediately after they graduate. After two years, it was 94 percent.
Psychology is the second most popular undergraduate major behind business administration.
In 1996, about 65,000 college seniors graduated with a degree in psychology, but many were not necessarily interested in a career as a psychologist. An additional 3 percent find themselves working in computer science and an equal percentage in biological sciences. Therefore, we cannot honestly speak of the baccalaureate in psychology as preparation for a career in psychology. Similarly, a baccalaureate degree in political science does not qualify an individual to practice law, and a baccalaureate in biology does not make one a physician. All this is to say that the study of psychology at the bachelor s level is fine preparation for many other professions.