I/O Management

[IO guy-o]

Hello everyone,

I am wondering if anyone knows which schools I should be looking at if I am interested in management training and interventions. I am looking for a phd program, currently have an undergrad gpa of 3.89 and on the practice GRE I scored Q162 and V158. I have looked at the siop page and rankings extensively, as well as the usnews rankings. However, the siop hasn't been updated since 2002, and the usnews 2009. I am also wondering if I should assume a good overall program will be strong in my area of interest. Any help would be greatly appreciated as it is hard to find good(or any!) advice on this topic. Thanks again, and if I need to provide more information I can definatly do that.

-Andrew

[Quant_Liz_Lemon]

I would not assume that a good overall ranked program would have a strong I/O program. For example, ASU has one of the best (if not the best) Quantitative Psychology programs in the country, but its overall ranking is less than stellar. Also, don't assume that a stellar I/O program will have a prof that matches your research interests.

[IO guy-o]

Thanks miss Lemon,

I was wondering more about the 2nd part... whether a highly ranked I/O program is presumed to have a strong management development program. Or should I even care about how a program is ranked if I find a Prof there who is doing research I find interesting? I guess I am just wondering what else and how else to find a program besides dated top ten lists.

[Quant_Liz_Lemon]

Honestly, you should care more about the research interests of your PI rather than the rank of the program since those are indeed pretty arbitrary and outdated. Adcom committees admit qualified students that match the research interests of their mentor. Even if you are a good overall candidate, you won't be admitted to work with a mentor whose research interests are very different than your own.

I found my profs of interest by reading thru the literature and by asking profs for suggestions. My field is really small (23 programs), so I was able to do a census of all them.