In 2003, the department administered the Major Field Test in Psychology. This test is an important part of the Psychology Department's self-assessment and will be used to try to improve the psychology program at BSU.
A total of 30 BSU students took the test. Relative to scores from a comparison group of 259 colleges and universities (testing a total of 14,327 students), including schools in Minnesota (e.g., Carleton, College of St. Benedict, and Winona State) as well as other well-known schools from around the country (e.g., Butler, Hofstra, Kenyon, Ohio State, Texas A & M, UND, and Xavier), the BSU mean scores correspond to the following percentiles:
| Total Test | 79th Percentile | |
| Subtests: | ||
| Memory & Thinking | 55th Percentile | |
| Sensation & Perception & Physio | 63rd Percentile | |
| Developmental | 68th Percentile | |
| Clinical & Abnormal | 75th Percentile | |
| Social | 84th Percentile | |
| Measurement & Methodology | 93rd Percentile | |
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