Ranked #139 in popularity, clinical psychology is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Michigan to determine which ones were the best for clinical psychology students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 130 degrees in clinical psychology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of clinical psychology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Clinical Psychology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 Clinical Psychology Schools in Michigan list to help you make the college decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of clinical psychology degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Detroit Mercy is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in clinical psychology. Located in the city of Detroit, Detroit Mercy is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 18th out of 57 schools for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were roughly 16 clinical psychology students who graduated with this degree at Detroit Mercy in the most recent data year.
Central Michigan University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in clinical psychology. Located in the distant town of Mount Pleasant, Central Michigan is a public university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #402 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Central Michigan is a great university overall.
There were about 8 clinical psychology students who graduated with this degree at Central Michigan in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat Eastern Michigan University if you wish to pursue a degree in clinical psychology. Located in the suburb of Ypsilanti, Eastern Michigan is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 20th out of 57 colleges for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were approximately 28 clinical psychology students who graduated with this degree at Eastern Michigan in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat Michigan School of Psychology if you want to pursue a degree in clinical psychology. MSP is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Farmington Hills.
There were roughly 72 clinical psychology students who graduated with this degree at MSP in the most recent year we have data available.
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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).