2025 Best Social Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools

If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in social psychology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #250 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for social psychology students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 28 doctor's degrees in social psychology during the <nil> academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Social Psychology School for Your Doctor's Degree

The social psychology doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to social psychology students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other social psychology students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized social psychology related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for social psychology students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Social Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Social Psychology in the United States

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for social psychology students seeking a a doctor's degree.

Top Schools for a Doctorate in Social Psychology

1

New York University
New York, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

4 Annual Graduates

New York University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in social psychology. NYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New York.More information about a doctorate in social psychology from New York University

2

University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

2 Annual Graduates

University of Connecticut is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in social psychology. UCONN is a fairly large public university located in the fringe town of Storrs.More information about a doctorate in social psychology from University of Connecticut

3

University of Nevada - Reno
Reno, NV

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

5 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat University of Nevada - Reno if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in social psychology. Located in the city of Reno, UNR is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in social psychology from University of Nevada - Reno

Social Psychology by Region

View the Best Social Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Social Psychology Related Rankings by Major

Social Psychology is one of 10 different types of Child Development & Psychology programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Social Psychology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Other Research & Experimental Psychology	544
Experimental Psychology	214
Developmental & Child Psychology	84
Cognitive Psychology & Psycholinguistics	24
Behavioral Neuroscience	23
Psychometrics & Quantitative Psychology	13
Personality Psychology	7

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.