Nevada·Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations·SOC 19-3034

Best School Psychologist programs in Nevada, ranked by enrollment

Diagnose and implement individual or schoolwide interventions or strategies to address educational, behavioral, or developmental issues that adversely impact educational functioning in a school.

1 schools in Nevada run programs that feed this job, graduating 24 people a year. The job pays a median of $93,680 in Nevada across about 290 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledPsychologistSchool PsychologistConsulting PsychologistBilingual School PsychologistPsychometristAutism ConsultantBehavioral AnalystChild Psychologist
Graduates / yr
24
in Nevada
Median pay · Nevada
$93,680
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
290
people employed
Schools
1
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
51%
across those schools
Median net price
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Nevada that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

2 programs in Nevada that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Nevada (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Nevada page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 42.2806In Nevada
16
66.7%
1$33,805$27,000
2
CIP 42.2805In Nevada
8
33.3%
1$33,805$27,000

Top 1 schools in Nevada

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 0 of the 1 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1University of Nevada - Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV Public · 2 feeder programs
24Educational Psychology51%96%

All 1 schools in Nevada

Every school in Nevada with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Nevada that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
University of Nevada - Las VegasLas VegasPublic242

What school psychologists earn in Nevada

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Nevada
$93,680
Mean annual
$96,920
Jobs in state
290
What the range looks like
10th pct$72,250Median$93,68090th pct$136,160
Versus the national median
-2.4%

U.S. median $95,990. Nevada pays below the national figure.

Job concentration
0.46×

1.00× means the state has its expected share of these jobs.

Metro areas in Nevada

Reno, NV
$127,740median
60 jobs
Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV
$88,820median
200 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+0.7%
Little or no change
Openings per year
3,800
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
500
67,200 → 67,700
Typical entry education
Master's degree
Plus internship/residency

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national School Psychologists page.

How to become a School Psychologist

Job zone 5 of 5 · SVP 8.0 and above
Typical entry education
Master's degree
On-the-job training
Internship/residency

Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Top skills

Active ListeningSpeakingReading ComprehensionWritingCritical ThinkingMonitoring

The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in Nevada

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 2 majors mapped to School Psychologists2 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 42.2805School Psychology
  • 42.2806Educational Psychology

Common questions

Answers for people weighing school psychologists programs in Nevada.

What degree do you need to become a School Psychologist?+

Master's degree is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Educational Psychology, which awarded 16 degrees in Nevada in 2024-25, 66.7% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming a School Psychologist?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 2 programs to this occupation. The largest are Clinical. Together they graduate about 24 people a year in Nevada.

How much do school psychologists earn in Nevada?+

The median is $93,680 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 2.4% below the U.S. median of $95,990. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for school psychologists growing?+

BLS projects a +0.7% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, little or no change, with roughly 3,800 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Nevada?+

1 institutions in Nevada reported graduates from at least one of the 2 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

What other job titles do school psychologists work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Psychologist, School Psychologist, Consulting Psychologist, Bilingual School Psychologist among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 19-3034.

Programs in NevadaEducational Psychology

About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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