2024 Best School Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
4Colleges in the Plains States Region
15Doctor's Degrees
School Psychology is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #72 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best School Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 15 doctor's degrees in school psychology to qualified students.
Choosing a Great School Psychology School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of school psychology for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality school psychology program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different 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 school psychology students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other school 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 school psychology related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for school psychology students working on their doctor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best School Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study School Psychology in the Plains States Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in school psychology.
Top Plains States Region Schools for a Doctorate in School Psychology
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.