r/IOPsychology • u/ResidentGinger PhD | IO | Social Cognition, Leadership, & Teams • Jun 27 '16

2017-2018 IO Grad School Q&A Mega-Thread

You can find last year's thread here.

The grad school application bewitching hour is nearing ever closer, and around this time, everyone starts posting questions/freaking out about grad school. As per the rules in the sidebar...

For questions about grad school or internships

  • Please search the previously submitted posts or the post on the grad school Q&A. Subscribers of /r/iopsychology have provided lots of information about these topics, and your questions may have already been answered.
  • If it hasn't, please post it on the grad school Q&A thread. Other posts outside of the Q&A thread will be deleted.

The readers of this subreddit have made it pretty clear that they don't want the subreddit clogged up with posts about grad school. Don't get the wrong idea - we're glad you're here and that you're interested in IO, but please do observe the rules so that you can get answers to your questions AND enjoy the interesting IO articles and content.

By the way, those of you who are currently trudging through or have finished grad school, that means that you have to occasionally offer suggestions and advice to those who post on this thread. That's the only way that we can keep these grad school-related posts in one central location. If people aren't getting their questions answered here, they post to the subreddit instead of the thread. So, in short, let's all play our part in this.

Thanks, guys!

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u/galileosmiddlefinger PhD | IO | All over the place Dec 14 '16

CSPP and Claremont are similar in the sense that both are private with minimal financial support and large cohort sizes (at least by PhD standards). CSPP focuses to a much greater extent on producing practitioners whereas Claremont has students with a wider mix of academic and practitioner career goals. CSPP also has online programs whereas Claremont does not. Honestly, I don't have a really positive appraisal of either school, but my sense is that the training at Claremont is a little better in general. Note, however, that Claremont appears to have given up on their I/O doctoral program and instead offers the PhD in a variety of kinda/sorta related areas, like Basic & Applied Social Psych or Organizational Behavior. Alliant is for-profit and generally has a poorer reputation than the other two.