Graduating psychology majors completed a survey with open-ended questions assessing their degree of satisfaction, reasons for choosing the major, valuable experiences, and suggestions for improvement. Qualitative analysis of the results revealed that students were overwhelmingly satisfied, most frequently chose the major as a result of personal interests or personality characteristics, reported experiential learning as the most valuable component of their experience, and most commonly stated curricular issues (e.g., lack of course variety, strong emphasis on experimental aspects of the field) as needing improvement. There were no differences in satisfaction between first-generation students and their continuing-generation peers. However, first-generation students were more likely than continuing-generation students to value extracurricular experiences and believed that more such experiences, as well as additional assistance with developing their plans for the future, would have improved their experience. These results suggest that high levels of satisfaction are seen when students believe that their interests and characteristics are a good fit with the content of the discipline and have opportunities to obtain hands-on experience in the field. Satisfaction may be improved by increasing experiential learning opportunities and expanding course offerings, particularly those related to applied areas of the field, as well as educating students about the experimental nature of the discipline early in their academic career. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)