Grad School: Sortable I/O Psychology Ph.D. Program Rankings

Grad School Series: Applying to Graduate School in Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Starting Sophomore Year: Should I get a Ph.D. or Master’s? | How to Get Research Experience

Starting Junior Year: Preparing for the GRE | Getting Recommendations

Starting Senior Year: Where to Apply | Traditional vs. Online Degrees | Personal Statements

Alternative Path: Managing a Career Change to I/O | Pursuing a PhD Post-Master’s

Interviews/Visits: Preparing for Interviews | Going to Interviews

In Graduate School: What to Expect First Year

Rankings/Listings: PhD Program Rankings | Online Programs Listing

Having written my grad school series, one of the most common questions I get is, “Which graduate programs should I apply to?” As I’ve explained on this blog, that’s a complicated question. You should evaluate which schools offer what you want as a student.

Unfortunately, SIOP does not make it easy to directly compare such information across programs. That’s understandable to a degree – much of this information, like research interests, changes frequently. However, every few years, a new set of rankings appears in SIOP’s newsletter, TIP, for some reason still chained to a text-based format, and sometimes to PDF. Why not something a little more modern?

So to fix that, I’ve combined the most recent of several rankings currently available into a searchable, sortable format: US News and World Report’s ranking of I/O psychology programs (woefully incomplete), the most recent evaluations of I/O faculty research productivity as reported by Beiler, Zimmerman, Doerr and Clark (2014), the number of I/O faculty in each program from that same source, and the most recent student satisfaction ratings of I/O PhD programs as reported by Kraiger and Abalos (2004). Those student satisfaction ratings are a bit old (collected in 2002), but they’re the most recent currently available.

These rankings shouldn’t be the only thing you look at when considering a graduate program, but it is something worth paying attention to.

Table column meanings are as follow (1 = highest rank out of up to 40 for all columns except Num Fac, NR = not ranked)):

Num Fac = The number of I/O faculty at the program (not a ranking). US News = The US News and World Report rank. Pubs = Rank by number of publications by I/O faculty in any peer-reviewed outlet between 2003 and 2012 from Beiler et al. IO Pubs = Rank by number of publications by I/O faculty in the “top 10 I/O journals” between 2003 and 2012 from Beiler et al. SIOP = Rank by number of SIOP presentations by I/O faculty between 2003 and 2012 from Beiler et al. Prod = Rank by overall productivity index of I/O faculty between 2003 and 2012 from Beiler et al. Per Cap = Rank by overall productivity index per capita (i.e., split per I/O faculty) between 2003 and 2012 from Beiler et al. Students = Rank by overall weighted index of student satisfaction across 20 dimensions in 2002 from Kraiger and Abalos.

Note that you can click on the headings to re-sort the rankings (1st – 40th) at will.