Careers and Outcomes
Our alumni are employed in a wide variety of fields including human services, human resources, law and medicine, holding a range of administrative and managerial roles.
Many fields outside of psychology value the skills developed as a major in psychology. Our students have been accepted in a variety of psychology-related graduate programs including:
Ph.D. in Psychology
Research-based doctoral programs with a focus in different specializations within the field of psychology
- Purdue University (cognitive)
- Notre Dame (cognitive)
- SUNY Stony Brook (cognitive)
- Ohio State (music cognition)
- Illinois Institute of Technology (clinical)
- Virginia Tech (clinical)
- Tulane University (school psychology)
- Northern Illinois University (I/O psychology)
- Illinois Institute of Psychology (I/O psychology)
Psy.D. Program
Doctoral programs focused on training in clinical practice
- Adler School of Professional Psychology
- Roosevelt University
- Chicago School of Professional Psychology
M.S.W. Programs
Master of social work programs prepare students for work in agencies or private practice as social workers
- Jane Addams School of Social Work
- Loyola University
- University of Chicago
- Aurora University
- Syracuse University
- Dominican University
M.S./M.A. in Clinical or Counseling Psychology or School Psychology
Master’s-level programs prepare students to become licensed professional counselors
- Rosalind Franklin University
- Ball State University
- Roosevelt University
- Adler School of Professional Psychology
- Chicago School of Professional Psychology
- University of Wisconsin–Whitewater
- Concordia University
M.A. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology
These master’s-level programs prepare students to work as industrial/organizational psychologists for companies or as consultants
- Elmhurst University
- Roosevelt University
- Benedictine University