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[quote=Anonymous][quote=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.

[b]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.[/b][/quote]

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

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