<p>I notice that all the best colleges have 4 year doctorate programs in psychology (obviously), but I do find it hard to locate a high ranked school offering a 2 year masters program in psychology.</p>
<p>Why is this? </p>
<p>What are the best schools to get a Masters from in psychology? </p>
<p>My end goal is to get in to a top 10 Grad School for clinical or evolutionary psychology, if I do not get into the doctorate program of my chioice right off the bat then I plan on doing a masters.
I see that UMiami has a general psychology masters program but is UM considered a highly ranked institute???</p>
<p>If anyone can sign some light on this issue it would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you.</p>
<p>Okay. I’ll try my best answering this issue (I saw your other thread as well), but to be blunt, I don’t have an answer to your question. I’m sure google can answer that better than I ever could.</p>
<p>What is it that you want to do as a career? Do you want have an office and help people directly or do research? If the former, stick with clinical psychology. If the latter I think evolutionary psychology might be the better choice. They both take different paths. I’m not familiar with how clinical psychology works (I’m going into research in neuroscience), so I’ll talk about the research path.</p>
<p>Basically, when it comes down to research, you want to look for fit. No matter how high your GPA is or how many publications you have, a prestigious grad school will refuse you if your research interests don’t match the professors’. With evolutionary psychology, you’re going to have to look up schools that have professors in that topic range. Not every psychology program has that (I found that the animal behavior professors do a lot of evolutionary psychology work. If you’re looking for humans, then physical anthropology might have professors that match what you want to study. They just found that the frontal lobes of humans didn’t actually get bigger relative to other parts of the brain as they evolved. Interesting stuff). Don’t limit yourself. Do your research. Along the way, you might find a topic you are really interested in and a POI that you really like.</p>
<p>For many schools, especially the top schools, GPA and GRE are used as cutoffs. So make sure you revise your SOP many times and get good LORs because they look at those extensively (along with research experience) if you make it from the cutoff.</p>
<p>So, really, if you want to do research on evolutionary psychology, do some research on it. The current news, the grad programs, the professors; they’re all important. You do this so you won’t end up miserable at your grad program. It’s your education. Otherwise you’re just wasting your time.</p>
<p>That was very helpful, thanks! </p>
<p>I got a lot of research ahead of me!</p>