One school with a prominent psychology department is the the University of Wisconsin in Madison. UWM is home of the top-rated department for the study of clinical psychology in the United States for 2008, according to the "U.S. News & World Report." In addition to its clinical psychology program, UWM offers degree programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. One of the distinguishing characteristics of the UWM undergraduate program is its emphasis upon undergraduate student research. Rather than simply taking courses, students have the opportunity to engage in graduate-level research and receive undergraduate fellowships to fund their projects. At the graduate-degree level, as with many prominent psychology programs, a Ph.D. is the only degree offered. Students receive a coterminal master's degree as part of completing the Ph.D. program. The graduate program has several areas of concentration: clinical psychology, social and personality studies, biology of the brain and behavior, perception, developmental studies and cognitive and cognitive neuroscience research.
University of Wisconsin--Madison
Department of Psychology
1202 W. Johnson St
Madison, WI 53706
608-262-2079
psych.wisc.edu
Stanford University has long been recognized as one of the top schools for the study of psychology. Stanford's psychology department was ranked as the best psychology department in the nation by "U.S. News & World Report" in 2009. Stanford also offers prominent undergraduate and graduate psychology degrees. The undergraduate program at Stanford emphasizes research in the same way as the program at UWM. Stanford offers both a major and minor in the field of psychology and an honors track. Both the graduate and undergraduate programs offer specializations in various fields such as mind, culture and society, neuroscience, cognitive sciences and health and development. Stanford offers a Ph.D. at the graduate-degree level and is home to prominent research centers for psychology, including the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Stanford University
450 Serra Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
650-725-2400
stanford.edu
Also among the more prominent psychology schools in the nation, Washington University (WUSL) in St. Louis is a world-renowned research institution offering graduate and undergraduate degrees in the psychology field. WUSL was ranked No. 13 by "U.S. News & World Report" in 2009. The undergraduate department at WUSL offers both a major and minor in the psychology field, along with an honors track. The program generally graduates about 200 psychology majors each academic school year. Supplemental concentrations are offered within the undergraduate major in the fields of cognition in children, personality and individual differences, cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychopathology, lifespan development; and reading, language and language acquisition. Four fields of specialization are offered in the Ph.D. program: clinical psychology, behavior, brain and cognition studies, aging and developmental studies and personality and social studies.
Washington University in St. Louis
Department of Psychology
Campus Box 1125
St. Louis, MO 63130
314-935-6565
psychweb.wustl.edu