This program offers graduate degrees in the field of social psychology. The
University of Connecticut is a
top-20 public university in the U.S.
The
Department of Psychology is routinely ranked in
top 10 in U.S. grant funding and its doctoral program is ranked in
top 30 public research universities by The National Research Council. A recent comparison ranked UConn's social psychology program 11th in citation impact among universities in the U.S. (
Nosek et al., 2010). (See more
accolades and honors.)
Our program emphasizes
important social issues (e.g., health, prejudice, discrimination) using
multiple theoretical perspectives, multiple methods, and multiple levels of analysis (individual, dyad, group, intergroup, culture, network, society, international, ecology).