Best Programs for a PsyD in Clinical Psychology (2027)

The clinical list holds 92 of the 117 ranked programs, and it divides in a few ways that one ranking order hides. Of those, 85 are accredited in clinical psychology alone and 7 in the combined clinical and school area, which also puts them on the school psychology list, among them James Madison University, Yeshiva University and Pace University.

California has the most programs on this list, 18, followed by Pennsylvania with 9, New York with 6 and Illinois with 5. Those four states hold 38 of the 92. The highest-ranked clinical program in each is in California, Palo Alto University (No. 5 nationally); in Pennsylvania, La Salle University (No. 14 nationally); in New York, Yeshiva University (No. 11 nationally); and in Illinois, Roosevelt University (No. 6 nationally).

Where a program’s own pages say how it is delivered, 70 say on campus. Where they state a schedule, 7 offer a part-time option and 62 are full-time only.

21 of the 71 programs with an ASPPB pass rate report 80% or higher on the EPPP, against a list median of 70%; 26 of the 84 with an APPIC match rate place 90% or more of their registered applicants in accredited internships, against a list median of 83%. By this site’s yearly count after any waiver, the median clinical program charges $40,480 and the highest charges $83,400; two programs waive tuition for every admitted student: James Madison University and Southern Utah University.

Scores on this list run from 80.3 at the top to 19.0 at the bottom, with a median of 56.8: 12 score 70 or higher, 24 score from 60 up to 70, 27 score from 50 up to 60 and 29 score below 50. The distance from first place to 25th is 16.3 points.

APA’s own record shows the median clinical program accredited since 2006, Fuller Theological Seminary the longest, since 1972, and 59 first accredited in 2000 or later. 84 of these programs print a median time to degree in their APA disclosures; the middle figure is 5 years, and 70 of them print five years or fewer.

Among the clinical programs, 17 name a forensic emphasis, led by Florida Institute of Technology (see the forensic psychology doctoral programs); 25 name a neuropsychology emphasis, led by Roosevelt University (see the neuropsychology doctoral programs).

This page prints the first 25 of the 92. The other 67 run from a score of 63.8 down to 19.0, 15 of them accredited on contingency or probation, and California has the most programs among them, 14. Each of those programs keeps the score and national rank it holds on the national list.

A program counts as a PsyD in clinical psychology here when APA accredits it in clinical psychology or in a combined area that includes clinical psychology; the list is ordered by each program’s Methodology v2 score out of 100, the same score it holds on every list.

Scores come from Methodology v2, version 2.0, which weighs cost (20 points), graduate earnings (20 points), completion (15 points), internship and licensure outcomes (15 points) most heavily; it ranks every program once, and each list filters that ranking.