Graduate Program Information Sources

Below is a brief list of websites you can visit to get more information about graduate schools. You are encouraged to explore each site thoroughly, to take advantage of all the resources available. In addition to these specific sites, general searches for psychology keywords may also help you find information about available graduate programs. Offline, program information can be obtained through reference books and talking with professors and/or graduate students.

• http://www.gradschools.com
  This site allows you to search for programs by region, including international areas, or by program title or keyword. For each search, a listing of schools is shown. Each listing gives a brief description of the programs offered by the school, as well as contact information. In many cases, links to a departmental web page or schools homepage are available. However, if you want to visit a link, the best way is to right click and open a new window. Otherwise it will navigate you away from your search page.
  
  
• http://www.socialpsychology.org/
  This site is specifically geared toward those students with an interest in social psychology. It has rankings and program details, as well as web page links for social psychology Ph.D. programs. Details about clinical Ph.D. programs, their rankings, and what those rankings mean, are available for programs in the United States and Canada.
  
  
• http://www.siop.org
  This site is geared toward those with an interest in industrial and organizational psychology. The link to graduate school programs also offers advice on how to choose a program.
  
  
• http://www.apa.org
  This is the American Psychological Association Homepage, which has an online version of the APA Graduate Bulletin. The Graduate Bulletin has complete information on psychology graduate programs, including statistics on the number of applicants and acceptance ratios.

** A more general strategy is to think about what areas of research interest you. Proceed to figure out what researchers are active in that area, and then look at the graduate programs that they represent.