My D25 is looking for the right school that has great access to research specifically in Psychology and/or Statistics. Her career goal currently is to post secondary education and research. Her stats are good (aside from no SAT yet). QPA: 99.8%, 3 APs, will be dual enrolled as a senior in local university, has dance, marching band, winter guard, coaching, leadership roles in student clubs (FCCLA, etc), and tutors.
She is looking for a good environment, with a band/orchestra, good diversity, but also also one that will put her in the right spot to get her masters/phd at a T10 school. We are mostly looking on the east coast/New england, but are open to other suggestions. She really liked Tufts and Brown, but was hoping for somewhere that gives merit aide since she has so much schooling ahead of her.
Any suggestions or places that have a listing of research schools that are feeder schools to masters/phd?
I can list dozens of schools, but the key is to do research on a few programs in order to refine your search.
All Big Ten Conference schools should have substantial programs for undergraduate research in psychology as well as a broad and deep offering of statistics courses including those designed for research in the humanities.
With it you can see which schools produced the most alums who went on to earn a doctorate in psychology. I usually narrow the years down to 2000-2018 (the last year in this data set).
Looking at the list of schools in the northeast or mid-Atlantic that produce goodly numbers students who go on to earn doctorates in psychology and that give merit aid, I’d take a look at:
Brandeis (MA)
Smith (MA) - women’s college, part of the consortium with UMass, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, & Hampshire
Connecticut College
Mount Holyoke (MA) - women’s college, part of the consortium with UMass, Amherst, Smith, and Hampshire
Clark (MA)
College of the Holy Cross (MA)
Fairfield (CT)
Trinity (CT)
Providence (RI)
Hampshire (MA) - part of the same 5-college consortium as Smith & Mount Holyoke
Binghamton (NY)
U. of Rochester (NY)
Syracuse (NY)
Howard (D.C.)
Bucknell (PA )
The College of New Jersey
Fordham (NY)
American (D.C.)
SUNY Geneseo (NY)
Loyola Maryland
Franklin & Marshall (PA )
Skidmore (NY)
Lehigh (PA )
Bryn Mawr (PA )
Ithaca (NY)
Lafayette (PA )
Gettysburg (PA )
I excluded big state schools, since Tufts & Brown don’t exude big state school vibes to me, but if you want them included, just let me know.
Undergraduate schools which produce the most PhDs in Psychology:
U Michigan
UCLA
UCal-Berkeley
U Texas-Austin
Cornell
CUNY-City College
NYU
U Wisconsin-Madison
CUNY-Brooklyn College
U Illinois
Penn State
U Florida
BYU
Harvard
Rutgers-NB
Michigan State University
U Minnesota
Ohio State
U Penn
U Maryland
Stanford
Brown
UNC-Chapel Hill
CUNY-Queen’s College
Boston University
Yale
U Washington-Seattle
Duke
11 of the 28 universities are Big Ten schools. All offer extensive programs in psychology, psychology research opportunities for undergraduates, and extensive courses in statistics/statistics for research in the humanities. etc.
The University of Washington in Seattle has an incredible program for research & statistics as does the University of Michigan and all other Big Ten universities.
The University of Washington at Seattle, like all or most Big Ten Conference schools, provides undergraduates with:
Undergraduate Research opportunities
Applied Fieldwork
Supervised Teaching opportunities.
Big Ten schools give students the option to earn either a BA or BS in Psychology.
The Penn State BS in Psychology allows undergraduate students to select from among 4 options to better tailor the degree to the student’s career objectives (such as researcher, PhD , etc.). The four basic options under the BS Psychology major are:
Life Sciences; Neuroscience; Business; Quantitative Skills.
If you want to do research, the Big Ten and the Ivy League are the research powerhouses in the US. Lots of funding from both the US Government & from private industry. And lots of opportunity at Big Ten Conference schools for undergraduate research.
Slight correction: those are the schools which have the highest proportion of their graduates who get PhDs, not those with the largest numbers. I think that @Publisher’s list has the ones with the largest numbers.
@JLKS21S23D25 - I think that @AustenNut’s list is the best if your kid wants to attend a smaller college, while @Publisher’s list has most of the best larger colleges. Between them, it looks like they covered a good list for you to explore.
Her is another list, but I think all the colleges on this list are on the other two lists. I’m only providing it because it is “endorsed” by a psychology organization. It may help you narrow your initial list.
While there are probably plenty of other good programs out there, the lists that you have here provide a good selection of colleges of any size, any region in the country, any settings (rural, urban, suburban and such), private and public, as well as a wide range of acceptance rates.
As a clarification, the link that I included listed which schools produced the most alums to earn a doctorate. The schools I listed, however, were not those necessarily ranked highest bar none. I focused on the northeast (based on the inclusion of Brown & Tufts), and because those had been the example schools, I assumed that OP’s family was less interested in big state schools. And again, I was picking schools that offered merit aid. So the LINK has all the info, but I did some curating with respect to the list I shared.