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Do NOT attend Colubmia. Degree mill and students are unable to get jobs because they have no skills after graduation. See following posts both from columbia grads:

Neither NYU nor Columbia carry any weight in the field. None of the faculty publish or have any significant disciplinary accomplishments. You are much better off attending Hofstra, Baruch, or surrounding programs such as New Haven or Montclair State. All give more rounded, empirical, and applied training which will better prepare you for (a) designing your own solutions in companies, (b) acing consulting interviews by other I/O psychologists, and (c) linking you into the actual I/O discipline because all have faulty who are regularly involved in SIOP, METRO, and other I/O psychological entities. As a note on SIOP student surveys for Columbia and NYU - all are biased upwards because people's program attitudes are largely shaped by the institution's prestige rather than program quality. Someone attending a sub-par Harvard Graduate program will still evaluate it favorable because they are affiliated with Harvard. Same for other Ivy leagues - people's attitudes are great going in because the image of columbia and NYU far outpaced the actual quality of the grad programs.

Just a heads up neither the social-org program at columbia or the NYU program in I/O psychology have a good reputation in the discipline. You are better off at other local I/O programs. These programs are overpriced, do not have any eminent faculty in the discipline, are not involved in SIOP, and do not train well in statistics, methods, psychometrics, or other quant courses which make you more viable on the job market. Here is some corroborating evidence from others in the field https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-MA-program-in-social-organizational-psychology-from-Teachers-College-Columbia-University https://www.reddit.com/r/IOPsychology/comments/5967qh/what_is_the_demand_like_in_nyc/

That's interesting? I saw the application fee is waived for first year but didn't see anything about a $200 deposit - is this a graduate student fee? Either way, spoke to a person involved and they said rolling admission is only 1st year because the state approval took so long the program couldn't announce in Fall. They want to have final offers out by mid-May and will offer full fellowship along with research and travel funding.

Hey All heard Montclair State in north NJ is launching a new PhD program starting Fall 2020. Because it was just approved they have rolling admissions first year (to be typical timeline next). They also offer a data science specialization (i.e., learn python and big data courses in computer science) plus offer a quant certificate. Six research active faculty (2 affiliate), several early career. Here is webpage: https://www.montclair.edu/psychology/graduate-programs/industrial-organizational-psychology/