Careers and Outcomes

Where can you work with a master’s degree in psychology?

Your potential careers may depend on the option you pursue.

Whatever you want to do, our program can put you on the right path.

Is counseling your goal? The clinical option meets Missouri course work and practicum requirements.

You’ll graduate ready to pursue licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC).

LPCs assess, diagnose and treat psychological disorders.

Thinking about a doctoral degree (PhD or PsyD)?

The clinical option also gives you more research and clinical experience.

This boosts your credentials for applying to a doctoral program in clinical psychology.

How much can you make in clinical psychology?

The average starting salary is about $68,000. You can earn more with a PhD and licensure.

Your specific salary varies based on your work setting, experience and location.

Potential careers in clinical psychology
- Counseling psychologist
- Experimental psychologist
- Licensed clinical psychologist
- School psychologist
- Sport psychologist
Want to become a psychology professor or research expert? Take the experimental option.

This option prepares you to earn a doctoral degree (PhD), which leads you toward a teaching or research career. Our students have excellent placement rates into PhD programs.

With a PhD, you can teach at the university level and conduct basic and applied research.

Teaching not for you? Skip the PhD part and join the workforce right away.

Your master’s degree also prepares you to work as a consultant and/or data analyst.

How much can you make in experimental psychology?

At the master’s level, data or statistical analysts average about $58,000 to $80,000.

You can earn more if you have a doctoral degree.

Doctorate-level experimental psychologists make around $75,000 to $120,000.

Potential careers in experimental psychology
- Data analyst
- Experimental psychologist
- Professor
- School psychologist
- Sport psychologist
- Statistical consultant
Want to work more in the private sector? In I-O, you improve work environments and employees’ well-being.

You can apply psychological theories, methods and principles to fix problems and issues.

Your work can have a big impact.

Reshape the culture and spirit of a workplace. Improve its workflow and production. Help the employees feel confident, happy and efficient.

How much can you make in I-O?

Careers in I-O pay very well. It’s one of the most lucrative fields you can enter if you have a master’s degree in psychology.
- Average starting salary: $50,000 (with a range of $30,000 to $92,000).
- Average salary after five years working in the field: $120,000
The I-O specialist is one of the fastest-growing jobs in America.

Potential careers in I-O psychology
- Assessment and learning outcomes consultant
- Consultant, organizational research
- Corporate human resources manager/director
- Development director
- Equality opportunity specialist
- Learning and talent management
- People development
- Personnel research psychologist
- Senior consultant, human resources
- Senior manager
- Staff specialist
- Training associate

Career outlook in psychology

As a whole, psychology jobs are increasing.

With an increased focus on mental health and well-being, psychologists are needed more than ever.

Your career options increase if you also earn a PhD.

Where can you work with a master’s degree in psychology?

How much can you make in clinical psychology?

Potential careers in clinical psychology

How much can you make in experimental psychology?

Potential careers in experimental psychology

How much can you make in I-O?

Potential careers in I-O psychology

Career outlook in psychology

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