psychology undergrad schools

bclintonk
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:37:33 +0000

Whoa!!! Isn’t your methodology heavily biased toward LACs? A typical LAC has, what, maybe 30 undergraduate majors to choose from, all in the Arts and Sciences? A major research University has far more. The University of Michigan, for example, which by all accounts has an outstanding psychology department, offers at least 140 undergraduate majors, spread across 12 schools and colleges. Looking at the number of psychology Ph.D.s per hundred psychology graduates might make some sense. Looking at the number of psychology Ph.D.s per hundred (or per thousand) graduates in all fields is going to give you a result heavily skewed toward small LACs that offer only a limited number of majors, because psychology grads are almost certainly going to represent a much larger percentage of the total pool of graduates at those schools.