Interest in psychology

[Anonymous]

She can also consider neuroscience programs.

Or animal behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She can also consider neuroscience programs.

Or animal behavior.

Please don't sub neuroscience for psychology. A lot of misguided students do this and then they don't do well because it was not their cup of tea. They are not the same thing at all. The neuroscience major has more in common with cell bio than psychology. If she is interested in psych, do psych.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She can also consider neuroscience programs.

Or animal behavior.

Please don't sub neuroscience for psychology. A lot of misguided students do this and then they don't do well because it was not their cup of tea. They are not the same thing at all. The neuroscience major has more in common with cell bio than psychology. If she is interested in psych, do psych.

Yep don't lump them together.

[Anonymous]

I'm in the field. First, whoever said CogSci at Northwestern was a bad choice is wrong. Here's the faculty list:
https://cogsci.northwestern.edu/people/#

I see a few folks on there very respected in the field.

For psychology specifically, if you do it only up to a bachelor's then most likely you'll end up in industry, like human factors research or market research. Next step would be research/teaching, and you'll need a PhD for that. The issue is the field is producing way too many PhDs for the demand. I've known some pretty qualified people who ended up taking multiple concurrent adjunct positions just to make ends meet. Look at your typical psych department and they will produce about 10 PhDs/year. but they only have 1-2 job openings (due to attritino, retirement, and maybe a new position got funded). So all those newly-minted PhDs need to find jobs at other colleges, like teh ones that don't offer PhDs, but it's still an oversupply of peopel who want to enter academia.

Then there's the whole tenure thing. A quite respected professor I know at Yale got denied tenure a couple years ago, so that means it's time to go. He found a decent position at another university, but that's gotta sting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm in the field. First, whoever said CogSci at Northwestern was a bad choice is wrong. Here's the faculty list:
https://cogsci.northwestern.edu/people/#

I see a few folks on there very respected in the field.

For psychology specifically, if you do it only up to a bachelor's then most likely you'll end up in industry, like human factors research or market research. Next step would be research/teaching, and you'll need a PhD for that. The issue is the field is producing way too many PhDs for the demand. I've known some pretty qualified people who ended up taking multiple concurrent adjunct positions just to make ends meet. Look at your typical psych department and they will produce about 10 PhDs/year. but they only have 1-2 job openings (due to attritino, retirement, and maybe a new position got funded). So all those newly-minted PhDs need to find jobs at other colleges, like teh ones that don't offer PhDs, but it's still an oversupply of peopel who want to enter academia.

Then there's the whole tenure thing. A quite respected professor I know at Yale got denied tenure a couple years ago, so that means it's time to go. He found a decent position at another university, but that's gotta sting.

People say all types of things on here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She can also consider neuroscience programs.

Or animal behavior.

Please don't sub neuroscience for psychology. A lot of misguided students do this and then they don't do well because it was not their cup of tea. They are not the same thing at all. The neuroscience major has more in common with cell bio than psychology. If she is interested in psych, do psych.

Yep don't lump them together.

I think you two need to catch up. Many psych courses include neuroscience, especially at the higher levels.

[Anonymous]

https://canvas.stanford.edu/courses/74311/assignments/syllabus

Cognitive neuroscience is its own intro-level course in Stanford's psychology department.

[Anonymous]

people this major often go into HR or Law

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have insight into how different psychology programs are at different colleges?

My kid currently is interested more in psychology research rather than clinical practice. If they stick with it, I could see them wanting to go to research-focused grad school.

Would most psych programs be similar at the undergrad level at SLACs? They originally didn't want large universities but now are second guessing whether they would have a better chance at undergrad research opportunities at a larger school.

Any recommendations of programs to look into?

OP, thank you for this post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She can also consider neuroscience programs.

Or animal behavior.

Please don't sub neuroscience for psychology. A lot of misguided students do this and then they don't do well because it was not their cup of tea. They are not the same thing at all. The neuroscience major has more in common with cell bio than psychology. If she is interested in psych, do psych.

Yep don't lump them together.

I think you two need to catch up. Many psych courses include neuroscience, especially at the higher levels.

Hi, I'm a neuroscientist. That doesn't mean the two majors are similar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She can also consider neuroscience programs.

Or animal behavior.

Please don't sub neuroscience for psychology. A lot of misguided students do this and then they don't do well because it was not their cup of tea. They are not the same thing at all. The neuroscience major has more in common with cell bio than psychology. If she is interested in psych, do psych.

Yep don't lump them together.

I think you two need to catch up. Many psych courses include neuroscience, especially at the higher levels.

And biology majors also have to take chemistry. Does that make them the same?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm in the field. First, whoever said CogSci at Northwestern was a bad choice is wrong. Here's the faculty list:
https://cogsci.northwestern.edu/people/#

I see a few folks on there very respected in the field.

For psychology specifically, if you do it only up to a bachelor's then most likely you'll end up in industry, like human factors research or market research. Next step would be research/teaching, and you'll need a PhD for that. The issue is the field is producing way too many PhDs for the demand. I've known some pretty qualified people who ended up taking multiple concurrent adjunct positions just to make ends meet. Look at your typical psych department and they will produce about 10 PhDs/year. but they only have 1-2 job openings (due to attritino, retirement, and maybe a new position got funded). So all those newly-minted PhDs need to find jobs at other colleges, like teh ones that don't offer PhDs, but it's still an oversupply of peopel who want to enter academia.

Then there's the whole tenure thing. A quite respected professor I know at Yale got denied tenure a couple years ago, so that means it's time to go. He found a decent position at another university, but that's gotta sting.

That may be a Yale specific problem. Yale very rarely promotes junior faculty into tenured positions.