<p>Ok. I will be direct. I'm looking for the top Psychology PostGrad schools in the US. I just want the facts.</p>
<p>There was some ranking that someone posted, but I remember the two top ones were Stanford, and Umichigan</p>
<p>thanks for the info!</p>
<p>This is TOTALLY the wrong way to go about looking for grad schools in psychology. You have to choose programs where faculty match with your research interests (they do work that you want to do). And then there’s all the different psych subfields: Clinical, Counseling, School, Cognitive, Social, Experimental, Developmental, Quantitative, etc., and varying levels of research balance within Clinical, Counseling, and School programs.</p>
<p>For example, all the programs I applied to were handpicked for specific faculty members who match my research interests.</p>
<p>But why go to all the trouble of picking the right place for you when you could just pick the #1 BEST AWESOME PSYCH SCHOOL (according to terrible rankings)?</p>
<p>Probably the best thing to do would be to decide on those subcategories as “psych” mentions. It probably is to your advantage to connect with a professor, but not necessary to get your degree. There will be many professors doing interesting work (probably) where ever you go. It is true that some programs may be partcularly good in cognitive therapy, others in something else. Research is inevitable unless you do a Psy.D. program, but many clinical students are not that interested in it. I also don’t know how hard programs are to get into these days. When I got my Ph.D. the acceptance rates were about 3/100 applicants so I was glad to get into a grad school!</p>