Understand human motivation and interaction and discover how they apply to the real world.
Want to add a minor to your major?
Learn more about our minors. (Note that not all minors are possible to combine with every major.)
Thinking about law school?
Learn more about our Presumptive Admit option through the UBalt School of Law.
Shorten your path to your master's degree.
Students who qualify may take up to 9 graduate credits, which apply to both the bachelor's degree in Psychology and the M.S. in Counseling Psychology or the M.S. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Learn more about our accelerated options.
Studying psychology can open doors to an exciting, fascinating career, and this Bachelor of Arts program exposes you to the theories, methods and applied aspects of the field, offering you the practical skills training necessary to enter the job market or continue on to graduate studies.
A two-semester sequence of both statistics and research methods allows you to investigate their related concepts together, so you can gain hands-on experience in researching and then apply statistics to analyze what you find. Your senior project will give you the opportunity to showcase what you've learned through an internship, research project, presentation and more.
Our graduates pursue careers as varied as family service worker, employment recruiter, technical writer and college admissions recruiter, or go on to attain advanced degrees in equally varied fields, such as behavioral medicine, criminal justice, nursing and human resource management.
With your bachelor's degree, you'll be prepared for such positions as:
- community health educator
- data analyst
- case manager
- human resources specialist
- rehab specialist
- organization consultant
- substance abuse counselor
- crisis intervention counselor
Want to learn more about what you can do with a psychology degree? Explore your career options.
Psychology students Calvin Scroggins and Karen Akin
Students Calvin Scroggins and Karen Akin are building their professional networks and experiences in UBalt’s B.A. in Psychology program. Hear what they love about the program. Learn more about UBalt's graduate programs in Applied Psychology.
Program contacts:
Kristen Eyssell, director, B.A. in Psychology program
Michael Frederick, acting chair AY 2020-21, Division of Applied Behavioral Sciences
Sharon Glazer, chair, Division of Applied Behavioral Sciences (*on sabbatical AY 2020-21)
Other psychology programs offered by the Division of Applied Behavioral Sciences:
- M.S. in Counseling Psychology
- M.S. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- Graduate Certificate in Professional Counseling Studies
- Graduate Certificate in Global Industrial and Organizational Psychology
To become a member of the UBalt chapter of Psi Chi, The International Society in Psychology: contact John Gasparini at 410.837.5281.
Psychology Spotlights
Honors program director Associate Professor Sally Farley (far left) and two of her undergraduate psychology students, Timothy Chang and Karen Akin, presented their research on "The heartfelt gesture" at the 2020 Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference held in New Orleans, LA.
Shane Stori (left, pictured here with psychology program director, Kristen Eyssell) was the 2019 recipient of the merit award for outstanding student in psychology.
On April 7, 2018, Assistant Professor Michael Frederick (top left) and a group psychology students visited the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, where they viewed numerous exhibits and specimens related to human biology and the history of medicine.
On Oct. 10, 2017, psychology students (from l. to r.) Shakeya Miller (undergrad), Carol Abraham (grad), El Schoepf (grad) and Kathleen Phelps (undergrad) attended APACampusCONNECT, a live webinar held at UBalt to help psychology students network with other students both on campus and at other participating campuses across the region.
At the 2017 Inspired Discoveries Symposium on May 5, (an undergraduate symposium of research and creative works) the psychology student representation reflected almost half of the presentations at the event. Santokh Singh’s (pictured far left) talk, “Narcissistic Behaviors and Social Media Usage," won this year's research prize. According to the Inspired Discoveries website, “Judges were greatly impressed with the research itself and his poise in presenting the results and agreed that his original research was worthy of publication in a scholarly journal.”
Read "Charted Waters" in the fall 2016 issue of the UBalt Magazine to learn more about the conservation research work that UBalt psychology students, led by Assistant Professor Michael Frederick (center), have been doing at the National Aquarium. (photo credit: Chris Hartlove)
>>Watch videos of the presentations given by Professors Sally Farley and Michael Frederick about their research with the National Aquarium (click names to link to YouTube videos).
#ThisPsychMajor
Check out what these UBalt psych majors plan to do with their psychology degrees...
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Hilary
B.A. '15
Research Lab: Existential Issues and Friendship Processes Lab and Urban Life History Lab
#ThisPsychMajor is planning to work as a sex therapist and researcher.
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Troy
B.A. '16
Research Lab: Career Adaptability Lab
#ThisPsychMajor is planning to change the workforce.
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Anthony
B.A. '15Research Lab: Non-Verbal Behavior Lab and Existential Issues and Friendship Processes Lab
This psych major now works as a research assistant at a consulting firm.
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Marian
Senior, graduating fall '16Research Lab: Urban Life History Lab
#ThisPsychMajor plans to work in either neuropsychology or animal psychology.
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Jefferson
B.A. '16Research Lab: Emotion Regulation Lab
#ThisPsychMajor wants to pursue graduate study in neuroscience.
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TERRENCE
B.A. '16Research Lab: Wagman Applied Psychology Lab
#ThisPsychMajor plans to pursue graduate study in social psychology.
See what psych majors across the country are doing with their degrees in How Psychology Majors Are Responding to Jeb Bush's Diss (courtesy of themighty.com).
For more information about undergraduate admission, please contact the Office of Admission at admission@ubalt.edu or 1.877.ApplyUB.