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Overview
Industrial and organizational psychology is a program that focuses on the scientific study of individual and group behavior in institutional settings, applications to related problems of organization and industry, and that may prepare individuals to apply such principles in industrial and organizational settings. includes instruction in group behavior theory, organizational theory, reward/punishment structures, human-machine and human-computer interactions, motivation dynamics, human stress studies, environmental and organizational influences on behavior, alienation and satisfaction, and job testing and assessment.
Highlights
School with the highest reported median starting salary ($88K) with a Doctorate: Hofstra University
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Careers for program graduates
Industrial and organizational psychology majors work in these careers, which are sized by percentage of majors in the career (at least 1%) and colored by the predominant level of education.
Have completions for industrial and organizational psychology changed over time? Increasing completions may mean you'll likely have an easier time finding a school that offers this degree, with the opposite being true as well.
How are students who recently completed a degree in industrial and organizational psychology doing?
Below is the distribution of starting salaries along with accumulated federal and private education loans across schools that offer a degree in the field clinical, counseling and applied psychology, which includes
industrial and organizational psychology.
Distribution: industrial and organizational psychology majors' salaries by education level
What is the salary distribution for graduates with a bachelor's inindustrial and organizational psychology by the level of their highest degree (Graduate degrees may not be in the same field as the bachelor’s)
We only include salary data when the survey error is less than 20%, so you may see only partial information for some categories.
Education level of workers with a bachelor's in industrial and organizational psychology
Is a bachelor's degree going to be sufficient to make you competative in the job market? We can look at the education level of workers with a bachelors in this degree to see if there is a likely need for a graduate degree. You'll also want to check out the careers section on this page to where they are employed.
This chart shows the level of education of workers with a bachelor's degree in industrial and organizational psychology. The worker's graduate degree may have been completed in a different field.
Context: Graduate degrees in any field by undergraduate ACS degree
About 44% of industrial and organizational psychology majors chose to also earn a graduate degree (possibly of a different major). The percentage of industrial and organizational psychology majors who also earned a graduate degree is higher than about 72% of other fields.
Context: Percentage salary boost obtained with a graduate degree
How important is a graduate degree for earning a higher salary? We can see the difference in salary of workers with a bachelors in this degree to workers with a bachelor’s AND a graduate degree.
Top careers for those with a degree in industrial and organizational psychology
Following are the most frequent jobs held by people who earned a bachelor's degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, though may not be limited to just those with a bachelor’s.
Careers for industrial and organizational psychology majors
Where do industrial and organizational psychology majors work, and how well do those jobs pay? A ** in the job title indicates that the Department of Education recommends this job for this program.
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The top ten careers for workers with a bachelor's in industrial and organizational psychology
Take a minute to interact with this sankey diagram. Follow the top ten jobs held by industrial and organizational psychology graduates through to their most hired majors. Learn where it may easiest to find work. Expand the careers to explore other majors that might lead to the job that excites you the most. *For many majors, the top ten jobs don't even include half of graduates!*
Explore schools that offer industrial and organizational psychology degrees and certificates
You can use this table to find schools that offer this program based on location and program level offered. Each entry goes to a school page similar to this one with all our information about that school.
Understanding the columns
The school list includes a few facts about each school that give you an
idea of the educational quality each school might offer:
Student-Faculty Ratio: A small number of students per full-time instructor
suggests individual attention for each student and an up-to-date curriculum.
Satisfaction Rate: A high percentage of returning first-year students
should correlate with satisfaction (schools call this their retention rate).
Repayment Rate: A high repayment rate means most alumni earn enough
to make progress repaying loans within 7 years of leaving.
We also show the total enrollment for the school as measured by
full-time-equivalent (FTE) students enrolled annually.
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Careers for industrial and organizational psychology majors
industrial and organizational psychology is part of a larger collection of programs: Psychology. Is there a different program that's close to industrial and organizational psychology that might be a better match for your interests? You can use this table to see a little about the programs that fall under this umbrella. If you click on any of the table headers, that will sort the table by that column, or click on a row and see Ididio's profile for that program.
For industrial and organizational psychology graduates, men have a 23% higher median salary than women, This is high: 66% of programs have graduates with lower salary inequities.
Here is an overview of race/origin for all industrial and organizational psychology graduates from this last academic year. We found a higher percentage of international graduates in this program than in 52% of other programs.