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girl0nthewing

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    2013 Fall
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    I/O Psychology or S/O Psychology

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  1. I, too, am trying to decide between the NYU and Columbia programs for the upcoming Fall. It has been a very confusing process for me. It seems from my research via SIOP resources that if you are interested in research, then NYU is definitely the way to go -- it is consistently ranked about 6 points higher for research than Columbia's program (13th in the country vs. 19th). When it comes to more professionally-oriented jobs, I'm not so sure. The SIOP rankings for I/O graduate programs by students themselves rank Columbia consistently higher than NYU in every category and put them in the top 10, and don't mention NYU at all. Same goes for student satisfaction and program culture. Yet here in this forum Columbia seems to be considered very low-ranking. This is making it a little bit harder to make the decision since in general I think I like the idea of the Columbia program better (minus the less rigorous quantitative standards) since it seems to be a little bit better for people seeking human resources management types of positions after graduation, whereas the NYU Program seems to be heavily geared towards consulting. Ideally I would like to be in a program that emphasizes both sides and would allow me to excel in either consulting or in a human resources generalist type position, and I would like to go to a school with the kind of prestige that would make me a better candidate for jobs once I decide which way I actually want to go. I guess the major difficulty for me is making a decision based on these rankings, which since the field is still so small, are kind of arbitrary. What I really want to know is whether I'd be less likely to get a job if I went to Columbia versus NYU with a Master's Degree.
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