Lycoming College Psychology (Bachelor's): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Bachelor's in Psychology, General
- Private nonprofit college
- Williamsport, PA
- About 36 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Lycoming College psychology graduates earn about what psychology graduates earn nationally, $34,534 in their first year. The typical graduate leaves with $27,000 in federal loans, close to the national median of $25,624. Several Pennsylvania programs report higher pay.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The Pennsylvania and national columns are the medians across all psychology bachelor's programs that report the figure.
Five years out, Lycoming College graduates earn about the national figure but about $2,083 less than the Pennsylvania median.
Debt and first-year pay at every Pennsylvania psychology program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the Pennsylvania medians.
Hover over or tap a dot to see the school. Only programs that report both earnings and debt are shown.
What graduates earn over time
Pay rises about 40% between the first and fifth year.
Year 1 and year 5 figures come from different graduating classes, so the growth rate is an estimate.
Does family income change the outcome?
Graduates who received Pell Grants, which go to students from lower-income families, earned more in their first year than other graduates. At this program, the outcome does not look worse for students with less money.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $286 a month, or 9.9% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
The government publishes these as ranges to protect privacy. They were measured in 2018 to 2020, partly during the pandemic pause on federal loan payments, so the forbearance share may be higher than usual. Separately, 31 parents took out Parent PLUS loans for these students, with a median of $30,275.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
56% of graduates (32 of 57) were working in Pennsylvania one year after graduating. Prices in the Williamsport area are about 8% below the national average, so a $34,534 salary here buys what about $37,395 buys in a typical US city.
Careers this field leads to
These are the jobs that the federal crosswalk from fields of study to occupations links to psychology, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
Clinical and Counseling Psychologists
$91,870Median pay in Pennsylvania. 3,140 people work in this job in Pennsylvania. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 12% from 2025 to 2035, with about 4,100 openings a year. Typical education to start: doctoral or professional degree.
Social Science Research Assistants
$54,610Median pay in Pennsylvania. 860 people work in this job in Pennsylvania. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 5% from 2025 to 2035, with about 4,900 openings a year. Typical education to start: bachelor's degree.
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists
$193,950Median pay nationwide. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 7% from 2025 to 2035, with about 300 openings a year. Typical education to start: master's degree.
About Lycoming College
Psychology ranks 4th of 7 bachelor's programs at Lycoming College by first-year earnings. The top three are Business Administration ($41,884), Criminology ($40,646), and History ($35,026).
Other psychology bachelor's programs near Williamsport
Common questions
The median graduate earns $34,534 one year after graduating and $48,233 five years after. The median across psychology bachelor's programs in Pennsylvania is $32,974.
The median federal loan balance is $27,000, which ranks 18th lowest of 48 psychology bachelor's programs in Pennsylvania. That works out to about $286 a month over 10 years.
On the numbers, yes for most students. Debt equals 78% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 78%. If the highest possible early salary is the main goal, several Pennsylvania programs report higher pay.
Most do. 56% (32 of 57) were working in Pennsylvania one year after graduating.
About this data
- Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid (grants or loans).
- Earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school. Graduates who went straight to further study are not included.
- Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
- Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of Pennsylvania comparisons when their main campus is in another state.
- Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago. BLS wages are from May 2025.
- School-level numbers like tuition, admission rate, and graduation rate are for the whole school, not the psychology program.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024
- NCES, CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk, and IPEDS institution directory, 2024