Department of Psychology
Career Options
Life after graduation
Maybe you think psychology would be an intriguing major, but you’re wondering what you would do with your psychology degree after graduation. While it is true that you need advanced academic degrees to become a psychologist or a licensed counselor, there are still many options open to graduates with baccalaureate degrees in psychology.
One of our graduates, for example, is now director of a regional alcohol and drug abuse program. Another put his psychology degree to working the area of law enforcement, serving as Coroner in a major South Carolina city. Many of our graduates also successfully apply their knowledge of human behavior in industrial management positions. About 15 to 20 percent of our graduates choose to go on to graduate school, with many eventually going to work as psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, psychotherapists, and counselors. A degree in psychology is also available in law and medicine. Your undergraduate psychology training at Lander is designed to provide you with much more than an arsenal of psychological knowledge and know-how--it’s also designed to teach you how to be responsible, literate and logical, and to give you “people skills,” qualities that will serve you very well as you go job hunting after graduation.
