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Program Highlights

• Our graduates obtain postdoctoral fellowships in excellent laboratories at major research institutions including:

     • Max Planck Institute • Harvard University

     • MIT • Princeton University

     • Boston University • Cornell/Sackler Institute

     • NYU • Columbia University

     • Yale University • University of Pennsylvania,

     • University of California Santa Barbara • Michigan State University

 

• Graduates of our program in psychology and neuroscience have been very successful at obtaining academic positions. In fact, the 2010 National Research Council Assessment of Psychology Doctoral Programs identified Dartmouth as one of the top two programs in the country for number of doctoral students who have gone to obtain academic positions. Our graduates have obtained faculty positions at:

    • Columbia University • University of Michigan

     • University of Chicago • University of Minnesota

     • University of Virginia • Pennsylvania State University

     • Virginia Commonwealth University • University of Nevada

     • Dartmouth Medical School • Tulane University

     • University of California Santa Barbara • Radboud University Nijmegen

     • George Washington University

 

• PBS graduate students publish high profile articles in major journals including:

    • Nature Neuroscience • Cerebral Cortex

     • Journal of Neuroscience • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

     • Psychological Science • Hippocampus,

     • Behavioral Neuroscience • Consciousness & Cognition

     • Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin • PNAS

     • Trends in Cognitive Science • Annual Review of Neuroscience

     • Journal of Personality & Social Psychology

 

NRC statistics

The Psychological and Brain Sciences Graduate Program at Dartmouth College fared very well in several important categories in the 2010 National Research Council Assessment of Doctoral Programs in Psychology. A few key examples include:

     • 50% of graduates successfully obtain faculty position at academic institutions (average is 29%)

     • 44% of first year students have earned external fellowships (average is 9%)

     • 78% of department faculty members have extramural research grants (average is 55%)

     • Top psychology PhD program in Student Outcomes & Support