what can a person do with a psychology degree?

<p>what careers is a psychology degree good for OTHER THAN A PSYCHOLOGIST? lol</p>

<p>do psychology degrees have high admittance rates into law school? is psychology a bad major if you want to get an MBA later?</p>

<p>I did an internship in a business recruiting firm downtown, and I remember many MBA candidates had psychology degrees. However, they were specialized in things like “industrial psychology” or “organizational psychology.” In short, learning about schitzophrenia may not help you here, but learning about how people can be more efficient as a team, will.</p>

<p>yea basically stuff like that, I forgot the name of the field of psychology which involves business but I do know they pay alot.</p>

<p>ok now i remembered thanks to google, its called business psychology , go figure.</p>

<p>what can you do with a psych degree? anything you want! while its one of the broadest majors, it can be applied to nearly everything.
most psych majors dont become psychologists or psychiatrists anyways.
they get careers in business, law, politics, education, advertising, health care, animal science etc.</p>

<p>and then there is I/O psych and forensic psych:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>industrial/organizational psych- focuses on the psychology of the workforce, customer, and consumer, such as recruitment, selecting employees from an applicant pool which overall includes training, performance appraisal, job satisfaction, work behavior, stress at work and management; Applications include improving human performance and satisfaction in the workplace, as well as the improvement of organizational performance; the integration of psychometric research into applications that achieve these ends</p></li>
<li><p>forensic psych: the application to the legal arena. Most typically, forensic psychology involves a clinical analysis of an individual and an assessment of some specific psycho-legal question; the job of the forensic psychologist is to demonstrate that there is or is not a cause-and-effect relation between the accident and the subsequent (again, ostensible) neurologic change.</p></li>
</ol>

<p>wow forensic psychology sounds interesting… oddly enough Princeton Review lists NO SCHOOLS as offering that major… odd lol… does anyone have a list of top forensic psychology schools?</p>

<p>i tried googling forensic psychology… there are like six schools that offer it as a major and i had never heard of any of them… am i doing something wrong?</p>

<p>i believe it requires grad school, or at least a combined psych/criminal justice program.</p>

<p>…i need under grad only… and then i can go to bus. school or law school after that…</p>

<p>There are 2 types of college majors, and since both are offered at most colleges it can lead to confusion. The first is the vocational-type degree (engineering, accounting, nursing, etc). The other type falls under the umbrella of the liberal arts. The reason the distinction is worth keeping in mind is that without it we can in effect mix metaphors. The OP asks what careers psychology leads to, but this question does not really apply to a undergrad liberal-arts degree.</p>

<p>The liberal-arts majors don’t lead directly to a career path, nor are they intended to. The reason to pick a liberal-arts major or minor is because of a strong interest in the subject. It may also be applicable to some career fields, but that is not the main goal. If you want a degree that prepares you for a job, pick a vocational major.</p>

<p>Jobs are always a concern for liberal-arts majors, but the way to look at this is that preparing for a career is something that is done in <em>addition</em> to the major rather than being the result of the major. And this is why books like “Jobs for the English Major” are misleading, because they try to identify jobs somewhat related to the major. In truth virtually any field is open to a lib-arts major; law, medicine, business, sales, etc. But you have to have done something in college to prepare for it. If you simply go thru school without doing anything career-related, things aren’t promising unless you’re at a handful of elite schools (and even there you’re behind your classmates who have prepared).</p>

<p>There are plenty of things to do in college to explore and prepare for a career. Learning about careers by talking to alums and thru the career center resources is a first step. The most important thing is internship(s) so that you get actual exposure to the job and can explain to potential employers why you would be a good fit in the career rather than just hoping its right for you.</p>

<p>Psychology is one of the top 3 majors among law school applicants. (Economics is the most common.)</p>

<p>midwesterner, could you please tell me where you got that data?
thanks!</p>

<p>From my vast repository of mostly useless facts.</p>

<p>Actually, I got it from a law school website, possibly Loyola’s.</p>

<p>All I know is there is a ton of people that major in psychology. It is one of the most common degrees at many colleges</p>