<p>I thought it was top 5 and easily top 10.</p>
<p>All the sites said it was world class, but I can barely find them anymore.</p>
<p>Like this</p>
<p>Top</a> 10 Psychology Colleges in the USA</p>
<p>Newsweek and the new QS rankings have it moved all the way to the point that it is barely top 50!!?!!? How did this happen?</p>
<p>Here, Best</a> Psychology Schools | How They Are Ranked</p>
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U.S. News ranked the University of Illinois seventh in its Best Psychology Schools rankings in 2009 and 45th **on its national universities rankings list **in 2012. The University of Illinois offers a comprehensive Bachelor of Science in Psychology program. Doctoral students in psychology can choose from nine distinct divisions. Program options include developmental psychology, quantitative psychology, brain and cognition, industrial-organization psychology, social-personality cognition, visual cognition and human performance, behavioral neuroscience, clinical-community psychology and cognitive psychology. The Department of Educational Psychology also offers a doctoral degree in counseling psychology.
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<p>What is this??? Going from top ten to to 50 usually means that something changed drastically and I don't understand at all what just happened. Stanford has the best psych department in the world, hands down, and is beneath Harvard/Cambridge apparently? What ???</p>
<p>Yes, language and all, and yes hurr durr rankings are not worth obsessing over, but can anyone explain to me what happened in the short span of three years, for the ranking to slip almost FORTY spaces down? This is very significant to me, I turned down my dream school for affordability/still really good psych school and feel horrible. yes, the grad school is still ranked like top ten or something like that, but undergrad it is barely top 50? what am I doing here? should I transfer out =[</p>
<p>lol
no but seriously, did good professors leave and did students just while away their time the last few years messing with the school's rep? It was supposed to be incredible and I feel really cheated</p>