Top 10 Schools of Psychology

Stanford University

• Stanford University in Stanford, California topped the 2009 rankings. Stanford's psychology programs emphasize research training, especially in the areas of developmental, social and affective science as well as cognitive and neurological psychology. The Department of Psychology admits an average of 10 to 15 graduate students each year. Stanford offers undergraduate, non-terminal master's and doctorate degrees.

  Stanford University
  Department of Psychology
  Jordan Hall, Building 01-420
  450 Serra Mall
  Stanford, CA 94305
  650-725-2400
  http://www.stanford.edu/dept/psychology/

University of California Berkeley

• University of California, Berkeley tied for first place on U.S. News and World Report's list. Programs focus on language development and social awareness, connections between genetics, the environment and behavior as well as human memory. The graduate school's 2010 admission rate was 5.6 percent. Berkeley offers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and doctoral degrees.

  University of California Berkeley
  Psychology Department
  3210 Tolman Hall
  Berkeley, CA 94720
  510-642-5292
  http://psychology.berkeley.edu/index.html

Harvard University

• Ranked third on the U.S. News and World Report list, Harvard University's Department of Psychology emphasizes research in cognition, brain and behavior, developmental, clinical science, organizational behavior and social psychology. In 2010, 65 students were enrolled in the graduate program. Harvard offers doctoral, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in psychology.

  Harvard University
  Department of Psychology
  William James Hall
  Cambridge, MA 02138
  617-495-3810
  http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k3007&pageid=icb.page21918

University of California Los Angeles

• The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) also ranked third on the list. UCLA's Department of Psychology offers five-year PhD programs with a research focus in the areas of behavioral neuroscience, clinical, cognitive, developmental and health psychology, learning and behavior as well as quantitative and social psychology. Annual enrollment in the graduate program averages 40 students.

  University of California, Los Angeles
  Department of Psychology
  1285 Franz Hall
  Los Angeles, CA 90095
  310-825-2961
  http://psych.ucla.edu/

University of Michigan Ann Arbor

• Tied for third place on the list, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor's Department of Psychology offers doctoral degrees with emphases on bio-psychology, clinical, cognition and cognitive neuroscience, developmental, personality and social contexts as well as social psychology. Admissions are highly competitive and the Department of Psychology usually admits less than five percent of undergraduate applicants.

  University of Michigan Ann Arbor
  Department of Psychology
  530 Church Street
  Ann Arbor, MI 48109
  734-764-2580
  http://lsa.umich.edu/psych/noflash.asp

Yale University

• Yale University's Department of Psychology tied for third place. Yale offers PhD programs in the fields of behavioral neuroscience and clinical, cognitive, developmental, social and personality psychology. Yale admits an average of 15 of 500 applicants each year.

  Yale University
  Department of Psychology
  PO Box 208205
  New Haven, CT 06520-8205
  203-432-4518
  yale.edu/psychology

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• At seventh place, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Department of Psychology offers doctorate degrees in nine fields, including biological, brain and cognition, clinical and community, cognitive, developmental, quantitative, social-personality, industrial-organizational, and visual cognition and human performance. The department currently employs 60 full-time faculty and operates an animal research colony and a psychological clinic.

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Department of Psychology
  603 East Daniel St.
  Champaign, IL 61820
  217-333-0631
  psych.illinois.edu/home/index.php

Princeton University

• Princeton University's Department of Psychology ranked in eighth place. Princeton offers doctorates in the areas of systems neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, perception and cognition, personality and social psychology and physiological psychology. Degrees usually require five years to complete.

  Princeton University
  Department of Psychology
  Green Hall
  Princeton, NJ 08540
  609 258-4442
  princeton.edu/~psych/

University of Minnesota Twin Cities

• The University of Minnesota Twin Cities' Department of Psychology tied for eighth place. The program offers doctorate degrees in areas including biological psychopathology, clinical science and psychopathology research, cognitive and biological psychology, counseling, industrial-organizational psychology and school psychology. Thirty-nine students were admitted from over 350 applicants in 2009.

  University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  Department of Psychology
  75 E. River Road
  Minneapolis, MN 55455
  612-624-4181
  psych.umn.edu/

University of Wisconsin Madison

• Also tied for eighth place, the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin Madison offers doctorates in the fields of biology of brain and behavior, clinical, cognitive and cognitive neurosciences, developmental, perception and social and personality. Less than 10 percent of applicants are admitted into the program each year.

  University of Wisconsin Madison
  Department of Psychology
  1202 W. Johnson Street
  Madison, WI 53706
  608-262-2079
  psych.wisc.edu/