Arizona State University's College of Technology & Innovation offers a Bachelor of Science degree in applied psychology. This degree program covers human performance as related to design and training to create applications that are simple to use and improve performance and productivity. The program focuses on enhancing human response time in demanding circumstances, as well as predicting behavior in distracting and stressful situations. Cornell University's College of Human Ecology awards a Bachelor of Science degree in human factors and ergonomics that combines human factors with ergonomics and environmental psychology. Students consider all aspects of the human environment from keyboard design to office furniture configuration and lighting, and determine how best various elements can be designed or configured to better serve people in a variety of environments.
Colorado State University's Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences offers a Master of Science degree in ergonomics. This degree takes about two years to complete and begins with eight core courses that cover a wide array of ergonomic studies and areas. The core courses, plus 25 hours of field work in which students work in a company designing ergonomic processes or products, are required. However, once the core classes are completed, students select supporting courses based on personal interest and background. George Mason University's Human Factors & Applied Cognition program in the Department of Psychology offers a Master of Arts degree the specializes in applying basic research in the cognitive sciences to real world applications. Students can focus on professional training or preparing for a PhD program. The program attracts many engineering and computer science graduates interested in finding solutions to basic problems with the human/technology interface.
Indiana University-Purdue University's Indianapolis School of Informatics offers a PhD that delves into the relationships between technology and theory, research and analysis and focuses on human-centered design. The programs urge students to explore how humans process information at the junction with technology and to create communication and other aspects that sustain positive human/technology interactions. New Mexico State University's Psychology Department offers a PhD program in Engineering Psychology that covers human factors and usability. Focusing on user interfaces, the program's research examines such factors as recommendations from automated systems and operators' trust of those recommendations, controlling one or more unmanned vehicles, selective perception and many other human/technology interactions. Students armed with this PhD generally enter the computer industry.