美国心理学属于理科，主流心理学基本上是基于实验科学的心理学，这就需要学生拥有心理学的相关知识，或者有统计学、数学或生物学背景。和出国留学网来看看2019US News美国大学心理学专业排名TOP50。
| 排名 | 学校 | 得分 |
| 1 | Stanford University | 4.8 |
| 1 | University of California—Berkeley | 4.8 |
| 3 | Harvard University | 4.7 |
| 3 | University of California—Los Angeles | 4.7 |
| 3 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor | 4.7 |
| 3 | Yale University | 4.7 |
| 7 | University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign | 4.5 |
| 8 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 4.4 |
| 8 | Princeton University | 4.4 |
| 8 | University of Minnesota—Twin Cities | 4.4 |
| 8 | University of Pennsylvania | 4.4 |
| 8 | University of Texas—Austin | 4.4 |
| 13 | University of California—San Diego | 4.3 |
| 13 | University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill | 4.3 |
| 13 | University of Wisconsin—Madison | 4.3 |
| 13 | Washington University in St. Louis | 4.3 |
| 17 | Carnegie Mellon University | 4.2 |
| 17 | Columbia University | 4.2 |
| 17 | Duke University | 4.2 |
| 17 | Indiana University—Bloomington | 4.2 |
| 17 | Northwestern University | 4.2 |
| 17 | University of Chicago | 4.2 |
| 17 | University of Virginia | 4.2 |
| 24 | Cornell University | 4.1 |
| 24 | Ohio State University | 4.1 |
| 26 | Brown University | 4.0 |
| 26 | Johns Hopkins University | 4.0 |
| 26 | Pennsylvania State University—University Park | 4.0 |
| 26 | University of California—Davis | 4.0 |
| 26 | University of Colorado—Boulder | 4.0 |
| 26 | University of Iowa | 4.0 |
| 26 | University of Pittsburgh | 4.0 |
| 26 | University of Southern California | 4.0 |
| 26 | University of Washington | 4.0 |
| 26 | Vanderbilt University | 4.0 |
| 36 | Emory University | 3.9 |
| 36 | New York University | 3.9 |
| 36 | University of California—Irvine | 3.9 |
| 39 | Arizona State University | 3.8 |
| 39 | Boston University | 3.8 |
| 39 | Purdue University—West Lafayette | 3.8 |
| 39 | Stony Brook University—SUNY | 3.8 |
| 39 | University of Florida | 3.8 |
| 39 | University of Maryland—College Park | 3.8 |
| 45 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 3.7 |
| 45 | Michigan State University | 3.7 |
| 45 | University of Arizona | 3.7 |
| 45 | University of Missouri | 3.7 |
| 45 | University of Oregon | 3.7 |
| 50 | Rice University | 3.6 |
| 50 | University of Kansas | 3.6 |
| 50 | University of Rochester | 3.6 |
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