The major?from Humboldt State University provides the basis for a career as a psychologist or mental health worker. Typically, those professions require a Ph.D. or M.A. degree.?

Also, medical personnel, executives, lawyers, and business professionals often earned a bachelor?s degree in psychology before they obtained advanced degrees.?

Psychology graduates leave Humboldt with a number of highly marketable skills such as the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and interpret data, write reports, exhibit interpersonal skills, and communicate effectively.?

An undergraduate degree is also helpful in many health and mental health positions, and for careers in areas such as college admissions, human resources, management training, survey research, customer relations, and more.

Special Facilities:

• Research labs for neuroscience and social, developmental, cognitive, clinical and community psychology

• psychological test library

• interviewing and counseling rooms with video equipment and one-way mirrors

• a community counseling facility staffed by graduate students and supervised by Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS)

• opportunities for observation and research at the Child Development Lab, a demonstration preschool run by the HSU Child Development Department

• opportunities for supervised volunteer experience in the community