Top 40 Clinical Psychology Schools
- UCLA Department of Psychology??offers a graduate program in clinical psychology that includes clinical opportunities at the school's Semel Neuropsychiatric Institute.
- University of Washington Department of Psychology??integrates an active departmental research program into itsclinical psychology degree??training.
- University of California/Berkeley Psychology Department??has a Clinical Science Program that incorporates "exposure to clinical and community phenomena."
- University of Minnesota Department of Psychology??offers their clinical psychology degree through the Clinical Science and Psychopathology Research track.
- Indiana University Psychological and Brain Sciences Department??has a Clinical Science Program that has been accredited by the APA since 1948.
- University of North Carolina Clinical Psychology Program??offers an Adult Track, a Children's Track and a Teaching Track to its graduate students.
- Yale University Department of Psychology??Clinical Psychology Graduate Program is a member of The Academy of Psychological Clinical Science, a coalition of doctoral programs focused on clinical excellence.
- Duke University Department of Psychology and Neuroscience??offers a training program in clinical psychology with three tracks: adult psychopathology, developmental psychopathology, and health psychology.
- Penn State University Department of Psychology??includes both adult and child areas of focus within its clinical psychology program.
- SUNY Stony Brook Department of Psychology??maintains a Clinical Psychology doctoral program that was among the first to espouse the behavioral tradition in the field.
- University of Illinois Department of Psychology??offers this top ranked Clinical Psychology program at its Urbana/Champaign campus.
- University of Iowa Department of Psychology??is linked to the Seashore Psychology Clinic that provides a selected clientele for some of the school's clinical psychology students.
- University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychology??has a clinical psychology program that can take six years to complete - but for which all accepted students are fully funded for the first five years.
- University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychology??Clinical Program integrates active research into its clinical training.
- University of Kansas Department of Psychology??provides clinical graduate students to the KU Psychology Clinic, which has provided services to the Lawrence, KS community since 1952. Their Child Psychology program is a collaboration with the??Behavioral Science??Department.
- University of Southern California Department of Psychology??offers Clinical Science training as one of five graduate academic options.
- University of Texas Department of Psychology??has a well established Clinical Psychology program - in which 64% of the students are female, as of the 2010 academic year.
- University of Virginia Department of Psychology??has a Clinical Psychology program "committed to the scientist-practitioner model of training. The??nursing school??has an advanced program in Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing.
- Vanderbilt University Department of Psychological Sciences??maintains a Clinical Psychology program that is also based on the ??clinical science' model of training.
- Washington University in St Louis Department of Psychology??offers a Clinical Psychology program that incorporates research in the psychology of aging, cognitive neuroscience, and personality formulation.
- Arizona State University Department of Psychology??includes its Clinical Psychology program as one of six academic focal areas.
- Northwestern University Department of Psychology??is located on the Evanston campus and is primarily research oriented. There is also a dual degree program in psychology and??education.
- University of Arizona Psychology Department??offers a Clinical Psychology program with seven areas of specialization that include Psychophysiology and Sleep.
- Emory University Department of Psychology??has three PhD options that include Clinical Psychology, Cognition & Development, and Neuroscience & Animal Behavior.
- San Diego State University/UC San Diego Joint Clinical Psychology Program??is a collaborative effort offered by the SDSU Department of Psychology and the UC San Diego Medical School Department of Psychiatry. It has been accredited since 1990.
- University of Florida Department of Psychology??offers the PhD in Counseling Psychology for its graduates interested in clinical work.
- University of Miami Department of Psychology??is primarily oriented to clinical training, with three focal areas in Adult, Child, and Health psychology. The undergraduate program offers a degree in Psychobiology in collaboration with the Department of??Biology.
- University of Michigan Department of Psychology??operates a Mood and Schizophrenia Lab as part of its research and training program for Clinical Psychology.
- University of Missouri Department of Psychological Sciences??offers a Clinical Psychology program that includes a specialization in Child Clinical and Developmental Psychology.
- University of Oregon Department of Psychology??offers a doctoral program in Clinical Psychology that has been accredited since 1959. The??Oregon Health and Sciences University??offers an??RN to MSN??program in Clinical Mental Health.
- Boston University Department of Psychology??has offered its Clinical Psychology program for over fifty years, training its graduates to be "competent in clinical assessment and intervention skills as well as in general research skills."
- Ohio State University Department of Psychology??offers a standard Clinical Psychology program but notes that faculty research interests include "health psychology, i.e. cardiovascular and pulmonary disease, cancer, psychoneuro-immunology, [and] women's health??"
- Temple University Department of Psychology??describes its Clinical Psychology program as one that trains its graduates to "think like scientists in their clinical practice and like clinicians in their research??"
- University of Colorado Department of Psychology and Neuroscience??has had an accredited Clinical Psychology program since 1949. Students in the??Bachelors in Psychology??program are encouraged to apply as participants in graduate research.
- University of Georgia Department of Psychology??has a Clinical Psychology program ranked among the top ten in the nation for sending its graduates to academic research faculties.
- University of Kentucky Department of Psychology??has a doctoral program in Clinical Psychology and one in Experimental Psychology/
- University of Maryland Department of Psychology??offers a graduate Clinical Psychology program that includes research in the areas of addiction, ADHD, anxiety, depression, HIV-risk behavior, personality disorders, and schizophrenia.
- Virginia Tech University Department of Psychology??has a highly competitive graduate program in Clinical Psychology, accepting ten to fifteen percent of its applicants. The campus operates an on-site??marriage and family therapy??clinic as part of its counseling education program.
- West Virginia University Department of Psychology??offers a doctorate in Clinical Child Psychology and one in Life-Span Developmental Psychology in addition to standard clinical studies.
- Michigan State University Department of Psychology??bases its graduate Clinical Psychology training on a lifespan, developmental perspective.


