Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology

Start your journey to a successful career with a psychology degree from University of Bridgeport.

Psychology is the science of behaviors, mental and emotional processes, development, and social interactions. Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in psychology offers you an array of employment opportunities, competitive pay, career growth opportunities and flexible work schedule options. Start your rewarding and fulfilling future today!

We offer a Bachelor of Science in Psychology in three unique formats:

1. Traditional, on-campus
2. Accelerated, online
3. Accelerated Degree Completion, on-campus

Prepare for an exciting career.

As you pursue your psychology degree, you will learn about the theories, researchers, and research findings related to how humans think and behave. This knowledge promotes and solidifies how we, as a field, describe, explain, predict, and influence human behavior and mental processes. The major provides you with a detailed awareness of the field of psychology, including its historical background, paradigms, methods, research findings, and applications. The major addresses the general areas of developmental, personality, social, cognitive, and abnormal psychology. It fosters the development of verbal, quantitative, analytical, and technological skills that are useful for work in psychology and related fields.

Psychology Program Learning Outcomes

By completing the bachelor’s in Psychology degree program, students will:

• Have learned the pre-history and the history of Psychology including the evolution of its main issues, topic areas, methods, and applications
• Know the major perspectives in Psychology, including Psychoanalytic Theory, Behaviorism, Humanistic Psychology, Social Learning, and Cognitive Behavioral Neuroscience
• Understand the lifespan approach to human biological, cognitive, and psychosocial development
• Be able to understand and provide examples of the major forms of psychological research, including methodologies such as naturalistic observation, surveys, case studies and archival research, and the main features and techniques of psychological experimentation
• Understand basic data organization, presentation, and statistical analysis, including both inferential and descriptive statistics
• Understand characteristics of psychological research, including the limitations of correlation research, experimental biases, placebo effects, and ethical issues regarding human subjects
• Be able to critically evaluate the psychological research presented in the popular press and peer-reviewed journals
• Be able to relate key psychological concepts and theories to their own personal lives
• Understand how key psychological concepts and theories are applied in clinical, medical, educational, human services, and corporate settings
• Understand connections between Psychology and such other disciplines as Biology, Philosophy, Business, Sociology, Religion, and Human Services

Your Future Starts Today!

• Apply online!
• Financial aid is available, and we accept applications on a rolling basis.
• We have comprehensive support services that will get you through college and into a great career.