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2023 Best Value General Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

15 Colleges
$30,928 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,440 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Psychology Doctor's Degree School for You

General Psychology is the #35 most popular major in the country with 8,051 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value General Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 15 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for psychology students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value General Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Check out the psychology doctor's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Top 10 Best General Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools

Our 2023 rankings named Northern Illinois University the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for general psychology students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the small suburb of Dekalb, NIU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

NIU graduate students pay an average of $11,390 in tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of Wisconsin - Madison helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value general psychology schools in the Great Lakes Region . UW - Madison is a very large public school located in the large city of Madison.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UW - Madison are $25,501 per year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, UW - Madison also did well on our Best General Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Bowling Green State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value General Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the town of Bowling Green, BGSU is a public college with a fairly large student population.

BGSU graduate students pay an average of $15,823 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value General Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. UWM is a very large public school located in the city of Milwaukee.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UWM are $25,651 a year.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Illinois Institute of Technology helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value general psychology schools in the Great Lakes Region . Illinois Tech is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Illinois Tech are $30,822 per year.

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#6

Oakland University

Rochester Hills, MI

Oakland University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for general psychology students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #6 on the list. Oakland is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Rochester Hills.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Oakland are $24,648 per year.

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University of Cincinnati - Main Campus came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value General Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Located in the city of Cincinnati, UC is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UC are $26,644 a year.

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Miami University - Oxford did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for general psychology students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #8 on the list. Miami University - Oxford is a fairly large public school located in the town of Oxford.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Miami University - Oxford are $32,332 a year.

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#9

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

Michigan State University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value General Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Located in the small city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public school with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Michigan State are $38,638 per year.

Michigan State excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best General Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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#10

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

Northwestern University ranked #10 on this year’s Best Value General Psychology Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Evanston.

Northwestern graduate students pay an average of $56,567 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Northwestern is ranked #1 for overall quality for psychology in the Great Lakes Region .

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Best General Psychology Colleges by State

Explore the best general psychology schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 85
Illinois 249
Ohio 174
Indiana 137
Wisconsin 64

General Psychology is one of 3 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology 29,224
Child Development & Psychology 2,576
Other Psychology 2,162

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 15 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to BruceBlaus.

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