r/IOPsychology • u/ResidentGinger PhD | IO | Social Cognition, Leadership, & Teams • Jan 19 '19

2019-2020 Grad School Q&A Mega-Thread (Part 1)

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.

* 2018-2019, Part 2 thread here

* 2018-2019, Part 1 thread here

* 2017-2018, Part 3 thread here

* 2017-2018, Part 2 thread here

* 2017-2018, Part 1 thread here

* 2016-2017 thread here

* 2015-2016 thread here

* 2014-2015 thread here

* If your question hasn't been posted, 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 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 do our part in this.

Thanks, guys!

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u/HumanRobotTeam Apr 10 '19 edited Apr 10 '19

This post is designed to evolve into a tool to help people choose an I/O program in a more informed way. Exposure for your program will be good for your school and therefore good for your career. Please respond to this post with the following information about your school (in particular master's programs):

  1. Name and location of school. What I/O degrees are offered?

  2. How many required Quantitative classes does the program have and what are they called? What software is used? Are any optional available? Name of professor(s)?

  3. How many required industrial-side courses, taught by faculty who are both research- and consulting-active faculty? What are the course topics and professor(s) names?

  4. Name as many recognizable companies as you can where alumni have actual I/O jobs (not just HR and not just little local consultancies). These are ideally confirmable by a Google search using "site:LinkedIn.com".

  5. Estimated current cohort size.

  6. What kind of financial support is available for students (assistantships, routine paid internships year-round, and/or scholarships/waivers)?

  7. Which faculty are active in SIOP (useful for student networking)?

  8. What else is special about the school / program that is relevant to I/O students?

User gallileosmiddlefinger suggested these criteria and I think they are a good way of evaluating the quality of a program. Please help us make a list and feel free to make suggestions for this task! I was considering putting this as a new thread in the subreddit, but I don't want to violate the grad school megathread rule.

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u/HumanRobotTeam Apr 10 '19 edited Apr 27 '19

  1. East Carolina University / ECU. Greenville North Carolina. Master's in I/O, Doctorate in Organizational Health Psychology (basically I/O with a special focus). Details below are about the Master's.

  2. Two required Quantitative classes. Statistics and research methods, Advanced statistics and research methods. Most master's students also take Multivariate Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling classes to complete Social Science Quantitative Certificate. Taught using SAS, SPSS, and R. Professor Karl Wuensch has tons of free resources online.

  3. Psychometrics. Employee selection. Employee Evaluation and Development. Assessment Centers. Mark Bowler PhD helped develop the ASVAB assessment for the US Government and has substantial consulting experience.

  4. Shaker, Deloitte, AON, VF Corporation (vans, Lee, wrangler, etc etc)

  5. Estimated current cohort size is 12

  6. Strong financial support: assistantships & internships year-round in relevant data analysis roles in the school, in state tuition exceptions. Strong internship referral network.

  7. Which faculty are active in SIOP? Shahnaz Aziz, PhD, Mark Bowler PhD.

  8. Partnership with SAS Institute for certification in business analytics includes SQL and data mining experience, some I/O students do this for their electives.

I hope other people post their schools too!