Top 10 Best Universities In The World To Study Psychology

One of the most popular bachelor’s degrees around the world is one in psychology. Students from diverse career paths choose to study psychology at either the graduate or the undergraduate level. In fact, it is one of the top 3 majors at the undergraduate level in the US.

With a huge demand for a psychology course, more and more colleges across the world have started offering the degree at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. There are many reputable colleges and universities in countries like the US and the UK itself that are famous for its psychology course.

So, we went through the entire list of the QS world rankings and narrowed our results down to the 10 best colleges that offer a degree in psychology. This list is based on world rankings, competitiveness, quality of the faculty, internship opportunities for students and careers after academics. Take a look at the 10 best colleges in the world that offer a degree in psychology:

#1.Harvard University, USA

One of the most famous and oldest universities in the world, Harvard is a popular destination to earn a degree in psychology from. It has been consistently rated as either the best or the second best university in the world for many degrees including honors in psychology. The department of psychology at Harvard boasts of an alumnus that includes the likes of B.F. Skinner, Gordon Allport, William James, Jerome Bruner, George Miller, and Henry Murray. Getting into Harvard might be one of the toughest tasks in the world provided the stringent quality tests that an individual has to go through, however, if you do make it, rest assured that you’re in one of the best psychology programs in the world.

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#2.Stanford University, USA

Stanford is a private institution that is famous for its innovative and research oriented graduate and undergraduate programs. It is considered to be an international hub for its world-renowned psychology program and offers graduates a wealth of career opportunities. Since the University is so research driven, it allows its students to team up with the best psychologists of the world and work on cutting edge projects. It is at par, if not better, to Harvard University’s psychology program and that makes it one of the most prestigious institutions around the world.

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#3.University of Cambridge, UK

Cambridge’s website says that its psychology program is more than a century old. Just like other top universities, the University is driven by innovation and research and is home to some of the brightest brains in psychology. The research areas are vivid and students get a chance to carry out their research under the tutelage of prominent psychologists of this era. The research options are not unidirectional; rather they are multidisciplinary and highly collaborative.

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#4.University of Oxford, UK

This premier institute in the UK is consistently featured in the world’s best universities for various fields of study. However, its psychology program is one of the best in the world as it got a maximum of 24 points in teaching and learning quality in the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) for Higher Education’s recent review of the University’s psychology department. The university is essentially driven by research, and more than 60% of the research conducted by students of the university has received a four-star rating. No wonder that this is one of the best places to get a psychology degree from, in the world.

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#5.The University of California, Berkeley (UCB), USA

UCB’s psychology department is one that believes in giving back to the society, and that being the reason that most of its research options are the ones that can help in making the society a better place. Home to some of the brightest minds in the country, UCB’s professors and students have generated a constant contribution to the field of psychology. For students who wish to look at the clinical sides of psychology, UCB is the best place for them because the University focuses a lot on training and research in clinical science.

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#6.Yale University, USA

Often cited as one of the best Universities in the US and the world, Yale is surrounded by prestigious graduate schools and research facilities. It is a great place especially for scientific studies including the study of psychology. Over the years, its psychology department has been behind some groundbreaking research, thus creating many opportunities for internships and research. Yale accepts the sharpest brains from around the world and last year, 100% of its students in the psychology department passed their license exam. The overall quality and prestige of Yale makes it one of the best institutions in the world.

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#7.The University of California, LA (UCLA), USA

The psychology department at UCLA offers its students a varied stream of studying the subject with three tracks of undergrad studies in Psychology (B.A.), Cognitive Studies (B.S.) and Psychobiology (B.S.). Separating students on the basis of these three streams allows the University to let its students specialize in one of the aspects of psychology early on, and that gives them a competitive edge over graduates of other colleges.

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#8.Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

Although MIT’s psychology department is not as old as other Universities on this list, it redeems itself with a unique approach towards the field of study. It combines the disciplines of biology, neuroscience, and psychology to study various topics including vision and memory systems. Since it is the most reputed place to get an engineering degree from, psychology students are exposed to some fine state of the art technology and other equipment.

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#9.University College London (UCL), USA

The university undertakes world-leading research and teaching in the field of psychology. It becomes a platform where different streams of psychology can collaborate so as to produce innovative and ground breaking research in the field. These disciplines include cognition, neuroscience, linguistics, education, communication, medicine, health, phonetics, and development.

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#10.New York University (NYU), USA

It not only allows its students to collaborate with people within the department, rather they get an opportunity to collaborate with faculty members across various concentrations. A major in psychology is one of the most esteemed courses provided by this leading research driven University. The department also ensures that each and every student participates in the research experience and attains valuable education out of it.

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