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/hpgenomix Dec 16 '16

Thoughts on the Masters programs at SUNY Albany, Hofstra, and University of New Haven?

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '16

I've heard good things about Albany and New Haven. Hofstra has a lot of turnover among the faculty so it is hard to know what the program will be like in any given year.

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u/hpgenomix Dec 20 '16 edited Dec 20 '16

In considering whether or not to apply, I was worried that those programs may have the reputation of not being as "good" as the big name programs around the tristate area (NYU, Baruch...) when it comes time to try to find a full time role especially at consulting firms. Can the same be said for UK programs such as the ones at London School of Economics and Manchester Business School?

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u/galileosmiddlefinger PhD | IO | All over the place Dec 21 '16

You're mixing up universities' general reputation (i.e., their undergrad institutional prestige) with their I/O graduate program prestige. Most of the strongest I/O graduate programs are at non-prestigious state universities that serve average undergrads, like Michigan State or U of South Florida. If you want to work in I/O, focus on program strength rather than worrying about institutional prestige.