<p>How respected is Columbia's Psychology Department? Which fields are the strongest at Columbia (i.e., Evolutionary Psych, Social Psych, etc.)? Please do not turn this thread into a battle zone. Thank you.</p>
<p>Bumps are a bit annoying.</p>
<p>Don’t have any info on this, sorry.</p>
<p>To my knowledge no one on this board is a psych major. </p>
<p>We could google it and post it here but none of us are about to do what you can do yourself.</p>
<p>Skraylor,</p>
<p>Be nice :)</p>
<p>I think Skraylor is being as nice as possible. A commandment of CC is “Ask not what thou canst google.”</p>
<p>Here, [Best</a> Social Sciences and Humanities Schools - Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-humanities-schools]Best”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-humanities-schools)</p>
<p>Overall, Columbia is ranked 17th.</p>
<p>and don’t google that which hath no direct relevance.</p>
<p>being ranked 17th doesn’t mean it is or is not respected - just means by some metric it is 17th. it doesn’t answer the question, and frankly epam usnews is a rotten place to start. now let’s say the poster really wants social psych and it bites at columbia, we could be number 1, and it doesn’t make sense to go to a place that doesn’t have your forte. and lastly, that is for graduate school and the methodology is so funky that a thing to note is that columbia is easily within 1 standard deviation of the best programs in the country. that is all you can really read into that ranking, as the data is too limited and subjective (asking people what you think about a program) to be powerful enough to indicate actual relative strength.</p>
<p>as for the department - not a psych major, but my best friend was. here is what i know: it is a strong department with a lot of majors, and a lot of opportunities for ugrad research in local labs. a research project is required for honors in the dept. there also seems to be a special emphasis on behavioral neuroscience and the department is very sci-oriented overall, all the profs i know of do something to do with behavioral neuroscience.</p>
<p>adgeek, I’m aware of the shortcomings of US News. It is just an objective piece of data that I thought would help our helpless OP. BTW, a lot of the schools supposedly ranked before Columbia are tied for whatever place, so if we place them in one big podium stand, then Columbia would be something like 6th or 7th. (still that has little bearing, at the ugrad level, it’s mostly about fit)</p>
<p>Epaminondas,</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, but I am far from helpless, kid-o!</p>
<p>Starting this thread would tend to suggest otherwise. It definitely sounds like you’re starting from zero and expect us to do all your work. And then you bumped your thread rather than demonstrate that self-reliance you claim to have. Give us something to work with here.</p>