Graduates of the psychology department at St. Mary’s College of Maryland have gone on to pursue graduate degrees in many different fields. View our extensive alumni updates/careers database here!
These are just a few of their chosen institutions:
- Dartmouth College
- Drexel University
- George Mason University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Harvard University
- Loyola University of Maryland
- McDaniel College
- Michigan State University
- Oxford University
- St. Mary’s College of Maryland
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Maryland School of Social Work
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Yale University
Alumni work in a variety of fields, including but not limited to:
- Aviation Administration
- Counseling (e.g., mental health, marriage & family, school, rehabilitation)
- Communications (e.g., web designers, advertising and social media specialists)
- Education (pre-K – higher education)
- Financial Services
- Human Resources
- Law
- Library Science
- Marketing
- Medicine (e.g., doctors, nurses, pharmacologists, veterinarians)
- Neuroscience
- Occupational and Physical Therapy
- Public Health
- Real Estate
- Research (e.g., analysts, associates, technicians)
- Social Work
- United States Armed Forces
No matter what path and field they chose, our alumni consistently say that their background in psychology has been extremely helpful in the workplace because it helps them to better understand the people they work with and serve. Read program feedback and advice for current students from our psychology alumni!
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Recent Alumni Updates:
Raina Crew ’24 is pursuing a MSW at University of MD School of Social Work with an expected graduation in 2026.
Isabella Sterner’ 24 is a research assistant at The Johns Hopkins University Center for Music and Medicine in the Department of Neurology.
Julia Fitzpatrick ’23 is pursuing a PhD in Clinical Psychology at University of Missouri-Saint Loius with an expected graduation in 2028.
Zachary Pisarz ’23 is a talent acquistions coordinator at Enterprise Community Partners.
Lauren Sapp ’23 is pursuing a MS in Sports and Exercise Psychology at Springfield College with an expected graduation in 2025. She is an IT front desk student associate at Springfield College.
Jay Mawuli ’22 is a research and administrative assistant at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Kamryn Ring ’22 earned a MEd in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) from Arizona State University in 2024. She is a registered behavioral technician (RBT) at Personalized Therapy in Lexington Park.
Katie Agate ’21 is a finance senior associate at Throughline, Inc.
Erika Blair ’21 went abroad to teach English in Japan for a year following graduation. She is now pursuing a PhD in Social Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Spencer Minor ’21 is a project specialist at WCG Statistics Collaborative.
Layla Purdy ’21 earned a certificate for mental health service apprentice (USAF) at the Medication Education and Training Campus in 2021, and is now pursuing a MS in Industrial Organizational Psychology at UMBC. She is a behavior health technician at Cape Fox Facilities Services in the Washington, D.C. area. She also works as a behavioral health technician for the Air National Guard.
Vera Armstead ’20 earned a MS in Clinical Social Work from University of Maryland, Baltimore, and passed her licensing exam to become a LMSW in 2022. She is a mental health therapist at Anne Arundel County Department of Health. She is also a marketing associate for the Armstead-Barnhill Foundation for Sickle Cell Anemia.
Makenna Bradford ’20 relocated to London in 2023. Prior to doing so she served as a self-employed brand ambassador and a logistics coordinator for Cita Logistics, LLC. She is now a shipping specialist for AcelorMittal.
Taylor Curp ’20 earned a MS in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Capella University in 2023, and obtained SHRM-CP certification in 2024. She is a people operations specialist at Ansel Health.
Asia Dofat ’20 is pursuing a PhD in Neuroscience from Virginia Tech University with an expected graduation in 2026. She studies the sex differences in dopaminergic modulation of food reward in the Howe Lab at VT.
Christina Miller ’20 is pursuing a MSW specializing in Social Change and Leadership at Salisbury University. They are a research assistant at the Johns Hopkins Center for Prevention and Early Intervention.
Abri Segal ’20 earned a MPH in Environmental Health Studies at University of Maryland in 2023. She is a health scientist at ICF in the Washington, DC-Baltimore area.