<p>Of the three schools, which has the best psychology program? I am just going to major in general psychology with an emphasis on behavioral neuroscience, anf then move onto grad with the same emphasis. Any ideas?</p>
<p>Thanks,
Trixee.</p>
<p>While I am not sure how Harvard compares to the other 2 in that specific department, I know you can pursue an honours degree in "Psychology and Neuroscience" at Harvard.</p>
<p>You might be interested in that.
See the Undergraduate Handbook for more details:
<a href="http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/HandbookUgrad2005.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/HandbookUgrad2005.pdf</a></p>
<p>Yale has a big neuroscience department, too. That's where I plan to go. And you can't go wrong with Stanford in any science/humanities (it's horrible for music, though). For these top three, we usually don't have leeway to choose; they choose where we go for us :)</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>dang, tkm, you're accepted already?</p>
<p>No, I haven't. Maybe I should have said "hope" instead of "plan." It's one of my many, many plans, in a big huge plan tree full of branches :)</p>
<p>Well, Zimbardo's at Stanford, and he's awesome.</p>
<p>Many pivotal psychological studies and experiments took place at both Yale and Stanford. I don't know as much about harvard, but I'm sure it's still noteworthy as well.</p>
<p>Sternberg's at Yale, and he has a great research team. He's the author of a pretty good undergraduate textbook too. If I could go to graduate school anywhere (that is, if I could drop all of my current responsibilities), Sternberg is the professor with whom I would most like to pursue a Ph.D.</p>
<p>Stanford's psychology department has been the consensus #1 program for decades now.</p>
<p>yale and stanford have the top psych grad departments, harvard isnt known for their psych grad program, if that is any perspective...</p>
<p>According to the NRC rankings, which are the definitive rankings of
academic departments, all 3 have excellent programs, all are ranked in the top 10:</p>
<h1>1 Stanford, #3 Yale, #6 Harvard</h1>
<p>Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT take small differences in rankings as being significant... they are not... pretty much all programs in the top 15 are equally good.</p>
<p>For the record:</p>
<h1>2 Michigan</h1>
<h1>4 UCLA</h1>
<h1>5 Illinois</h1>
<h1>7 Minnesota</h1>
<h1>8 U Penn</h1>
<h1>9 Berkeley</h1>
<h1>10 UCSD</h1>
<h1>11 Carnegie Mellon</h1>
<h1>12 U Washington</h1>
<h1>13 Princeton</h1>
<h1>14 Cornell</h1>
<h1>15 Wisconsin</h1>
<p>Lots of great public universities with top programs!</p>
<p>At Stanford, you could also pursue a more rigorous program and major in Biology with an emphasis in neuroscience. Might be a good combination with a more general psychology degree.</p>