2024 Best Colleges for Experimental Psychology

SUMMARY

Choosing to study Experimental Psychology is a valuable choice and often a mandatory first step for students wishing to pursue a career as a human factors engineer, an user experience researcher, or a behavioral health researcher. Interestingly, experimental psychology is a ​unique degree coming in at the 133rd most popular degree. Last academic year alone, there were 2,422 experimental psychology diplomas received. In-state tuition for experimental psychology at private schools is, on average, 4.4 times more spendy than their public equivalents.

With just 26 schools offering this degree you may have a more finite list of the institutions which will have a degree program for you. If you're hoping to immerse yourself with other experimental psychology undergraduates, look at colleges in California which have more undergrads admitted to experimental psychology than any other state. Zooming out, the best region to study experimental psychology is in the Great Lakes region with University of Chicago, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and Purdue University-Main Campus best representing the region. Interestingly, our selection of the top conference to study experimental psychology is the Big Ten Conference with University of Michigan-Ann Arbor representing the conference. Based on our comprehensive list on the best colleges, our choice for the best college for experimental psychology is Harvard University.

The overall 'best' school is not necessarily the best school for you. There are lots of perspectives to consider when selecting college. Features like campus amenities, transportation services, and food might definitely refashion one's feelings on where to go to university. At authority.org, we've evaluated the pros and cons for you. If, for example, you want to know which experimental psychology school is home to the top campus, the winner is Harvard University. If you are primarily interested in which college has the top campus, we have an entire page dedicated to that. We have carefully pored through student reviews, government databases, professor reviews, and more to compare every U.S. major in an unbiased and informative way. Here you can explore our well researched list for the universities with the best student life&nbspand our selection of the university with the best student life for experimental psychology is University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Are you curious why? Keep scrolling to learn more about our top selections. Many of our picks might shock you.

If expense is a significant deciding factor in your decisions, you might be cautious about University of Chicago. University of Chicago&nbspis our most expensive school for experimental psychology, at least for out of state students. We have an entire page for the most expensive&nbspschools that could put the expense of University of Chicago&nbspinto perspective. You could also care to know that experimental psychology is the 26th most expensive program in America, with an average expense of $53,100. On a broader scale, the most expensive state for experimental psychology in the nation is Illinois with expenses at the main university, University of Chicago, of $57,642. To zoom out even further, the most expensive region for experimental psychology is the New England region which is best demonstrated with Tufts University with a cost of $57,324, Dartmouth College with a cost of $55,605, and Brown University with a cost of $57,112.

Our cheapest region for experimental psychology is the Southeast region which is represented by University of South Carolina-Columbia with a cost of $33,528. On the bright side, the most affordable university for experimental psychology is Purdue University Fort Wayne. Authority.org's full list of the most affordable schools can be explored here.

In-state learners can expect to pay around $12,300 for a degree in experimental psychology. That price inflates significantly to an average of $35,900 for an out-of-state public-school student. As such, you might be interested in our pick for the school representing the best value for experimental psychology: Harvard University. On this page you can see our comprehensive list about the universities we believe to be the best value&nbspin general. With that said, this list is based on being an out-of-state student. The value proposition changes when in-state tuition is considered, as such, we are using out-of-state tuition as the baseline.

Earnings for experimental psychology students vary a lot, but within two-years of leaving college students will often make around $53,800. There is a lot of variation in pay; top earners can experience pay up to $101,100. Even straight out of university, the minimum earning positions within the experimental psychology field make $29,100, which could be worse. The top earning graduates for experimental psychology studied at Harvard University&nbspand if you are looking for schools with all of the highest earning graduates, we have that too.

The all-around diversity of experimental psychology ranks quite high, falling in the 84th percentile of all programs. The college with the most composite diversity for experimental psychology is Brown University&nbspand here you can find our comprehensive list of the schools with the most diversity. The financial diversity of Experimental Psychology sits only in the 15th percentile of all majors. Racial diversity is greater than financial diversity, in the 80th percentile. White undergraduates make up the largest proportion, 53%, of scholars majoring in experimental psychology. Additionally, 74% of undergraduates pursuing an experimental psychology major are women.

The median ranking of experimental psychology professors is 4 stars, which is surprisingly the average across all majors; which is a fine. If you are curious about the most popular experimental psychology professor in the country, consider looking up Michael Meehan at Southwestern College. It may be surprising, but the best ranked professors of experimental psychology according to students are found at Kennesaw State University. If we incorporate information beyond basic rankings we find that the school possessing comprehensively the best professors for experimental psychology is Johns Hopkins University. One will find more detail on our evolving ranking methodology for the best overall professors here, along with some of the top professors nationwide.

Finally, the hardest school to get into for experimental psychology is Harvard University. While we think of this list more as a novelty, we do have a comprehensive page of the hardest colleges to get into. Although, we do hope you understand that looking at academics from context only informed by superlatives might cause problems. We encourage you to look at some of our more nuanced pages on different schools and explore some of our helpful background 'blog posts' on important things to look for as your college search continues.