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This is an independent reference and ranking site about APA-accredited PsyD programs and the careers they lead to. It is published by Savo Media Group and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated on behalf of any college, university, government agency, accrediting body, testing organization or professional association named on it. References to institutions, degrees and credentials are for identification and comparison. Trademarks and program names belong to their owners. A school that buys a sponsored listing is an advertiser: buying ad space creates no affiliation or endorsement in either direction.

Nothing here is educational, financial, legal, clinical or career advice, and nothing here creates a professional relationship between you and us. Choosing a doctoral program has real financial consequences, and it should be decided with the school’s admissions and financial aid offices, not on the strength of a web page.

Accreditation status comes from the American Psychological Association’s Commission on Accreditation, internship match results from APPIC, licensing exam results from ASPPB, and graduate earnings from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard. Wages come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, program details from each school’s own pages and APA disclosure tables, and licensure rules from the state boards, statutes and regulations that set them, each cited where it appears. The methodology page sets out the model in full.

Even so, this information carries the ordinary limits of published data. Federal and association datasets are released on their own schedules and describe years that have already finished. Schools change tuition, credit requirements, formats and admission rules without notice, and sometimes close programs. We correct what we find, but we cannot warrant that every figure is current or complete at the moment you read it.

The school and the board have the final word. Current tuition, credit counts, formats, admission requirements and deadlines are the school’s to state, and licensing requirements are the state board’s to set.

Our scores are editorial opinion, produced by applying a published, consistent model to published data. They are not a measure of educational quality, they are not an accreditation, and they do not predict what any individual student will experience. A program’s position reflects the factors we chose to weigh and the data those factors could be computed from, both of which are set out on the methodology page along with what the model leaves out. Accreditation is the American Psychological Association’s judgment, not ours, and ASPPB and APPIC each say their own figures are only one measure of a program.

No institution can buy a position, influence a score, or pay to be added to the rankings or removed from them. A program appears because the American Psychological Association lists it as an accredited Psy.D. program, and it is ranked only when it meets the entry bar on the methodology page. The sponsored listings are ads and sit outside the rankings.

Wage figures describe what people in an occupation were paid, not what you will be paid, and match and exam rates describe past students, not future ones. Nothing here promises admission, graduation, an internship, a passing exam score, a license or any level of income. A doctoral degree is not a license: each state’s board of psychology sets its own requirements for licensure, and a degree does not meet them by itself. Nothing here is legal advice about a state’s rules. Career results depend on far more than which degree you hold.

This site earns money from sponsored school listings served by the education ad network Esyoh, which are marked as ads wherever they appear. Schools pay to appear in those listings, not in the rankings: a listing is not scored, and no listing can change a ranking. Rankings come from published records, and program details from each school’s own published pages.

What a sponsored listing says about a school or program comes from Esyoh and the school that placed it, not from this site. Every link in a listing goes to Esyoh’s site, and anything you submit there goes to Esyoh and the school under their terms, not ours.

You may read, link to, quote and cite this site freely. You may not:

• copy or scrape the rankings or datasets in bulk in order to republish them, whether as a competing site, a data feed or training material;
• present our data or scores as your own, or as though a school, an association or a government agency produced them;
• use automated tools in a way that degrades the site for other people, or try to get around access controls or security measures;
• use the site for anything unlawful, or to infringe anyone’s rights.

Quoting a figure or a passage with a link back is fine and welcome. Reproducing whole pages or the underlying dataset is not.

The scoring model, page copy and site design are ours and are protected by copyright. The underlying federal data from IPEDS, College Scorecard and the Bureau of Labor Statistics is United States government work and is not ours to restrict. Schools’ program pages and disclosure tables, the American Psychological Association’s accredited programs directory, APPIC’s and ASPPB’s published reports, and the statutes and rules of state boards remain their owners’ material, summarized or briefly quoted here for comparison and attributed where they appear.

We link to schools, federal agencies, state boards and professional associations throughout. We do not control those sites, do not endorse everything on them, and are not responsible for their content, accuracy or availability.

The site is provided as is and as available. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error free, and we may change, move or remove pages, including whole rankings, at any time.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Savo Media Group is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, opportunity, savings or data, arising from your use of this site or your reliance on anything published on it. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, in which case those limitations apply only as far as the law permits, and nothing here removes rights you cannot waive.

If something on this site is wrong, we want to fix it. Every program card links the school’s own page and every rule links its source. Send the page and the figure to hello@savomediagroup.com. Corrections are made to the underlying data, which updates every page that uses it, rather than patching one sentence.

We may update these terms. The date at the top of this page shows when they last changed, and continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the revised version.

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