Best Undergraduate Psychology Programs

Following are the leading institutions offering undergraduate psychology programs:

Bangor University (UK)
- The School's undergraduate psychology courses have the highest possible Quality Assurance Agency ranking of 'Excellent'.
- Bangor Psychology was listed in CHE European Excellence Ranking. It received six stars (the highest number awarded).
- It offers a range of psychology degree courses and programs including BSc Psychology with Neuropsychology, BSc Psychology with Child & Language Development, BA Joint Honours Programmes, etc.

Royal Holloway, University of London (UK)
- It offers the highest quality teaching; ranked 2nd out of over 100 psychology departments in terms of undergraduate student satisfaction in the National Student Survey 2008.
- Received the highest possible rating - 24/24 points - in the most recent Teaching Quality Assessment.

Stanford University (US)
- The University's psychology department has been ranked No. 1 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. It was also placed No.1 in the Gourman Report ranking of undergraduate psychology programs.
- The Department offers the following degrees: Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and Ph.D. in Psychology.

Ranking of Best Undergraduate Psychology Programs:
1. Stanford University
2. Yale University
3. University of Pennsylvania
4. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
5. Univ. of Minnesota – Twin Cities
6. University of California, Berkeley
7. Harvard University
8. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
9. University of Chicago
10. Columbia University
11. UC San Diego
12. University of California, Los Angeles
13. Indiana University – Bloomington
14. University of Colorado – Boulder
15. Carnegie Mellon University
16. University of Wisconsin, Madison
17. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
18. Princeton Univ
19. Univ of Washington, Seattle
20. Univ of Oregon
21. Cornell Univ
22. Univ of Texas, Austin
23. Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
24. Brown Univ
25. Northwestern Univ
26. SUNY – Stony Brook
27. Johns Hopkins Univ
28. Duke Univ
29. Pennsylvania State, University Park
30. New York Univ

Source: Gourman Report 1997

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