Best Psychology Undergraduate Program

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hello, I'm a (future) international student interested in Psychology. I've been offered admission at University of Minnesota but I'm still waiting the response of several other universities.</p>

<p>All of them have really good undergrad psychology programs according to many rankings (Us, ARWU, etc.) but I know these types of rankings can be deceiving, for example Illinois is listed as #8 in some and #28 in others. I DON'T expect to get accepted in all of them (if any) but my parents are pressuring me to make a decision as soon as possible. I did my research but I still can't make up my mind, all of them are really good for the things that I'm looking for: 1st. research as an undergrad 2nd. reputation 3rd. future-proof (like what % of undergrads go to good grad school or future income) and 4th. I don't like psychoanalysis/dynamics.</p>

<p>So my question is in which order would YOU rank these universities psychology program and why? Also, if you've been to any of these can you share your experience please? these are the universities</p>

<p>-Wisconsin-Madison
-Illinois Urbana-Champaing
-Cornell
-Carnegie Mellon
-Washington-Seattle
-North Carolina-Chapel Hill
-U of Pennsylvania
-UC Berkeley
-UCLA
-UC Santa Barbara
-UC Irvine
-UC Davis
-UC Merced</p>

<p>Thank you so much!</p>

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<p>bump :stuck_out_tongue: </p>

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<p>Both US News and the NRC, in addition to ARWU, rank graduate psychology programs.
<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-humanities-schools/psychology-rankings”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-humanities-schools/psychology-rankings&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“NRC Rankings Overview: Psychology”>https://chronicle.com/article/NRC-Rankings-Overview-/124708/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Will a few random posters on a site like this give you better rankings?
Probably not. It is highly unlikely that any of us will have first-hand knowledge of more than one, or at most a few, psychology programs at your listed schools. Our judgements about the others depend on existing rankings or on the kind of measurements that drive those rankings.</p>