Colleges and Universities with Comprehensive Political Psychology Programs
Israel
School Name: Interdisciplinary Center (IDC)
Location: Herzliya, Israel
School Website: http://portal.idc.ac.il/en/main/homepage/pages/homepage.aspx
Program Website: http://portal.idc.ac.il/en/main/research/caesareacenter/pages/pp.aspx
Notes: Offered through the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy; the first program in political psychology in Israel.
Multiple Locations (Europe)
School Name:Global-MINDS
Location: Lisbon, Portugal; Limerick, Ireland; Warsaw, Poland; Oslo, Norway
School Website: https://global-minds.eu/home/university-partners/
Program Website: https://global-minds.eu/
Notes: Global-MINDS is the European MSc in the Psychology of Global Mobility, Inclusion and Diversity in Society and is a joint program hosted through 4 leading universities that requires mobility between universities. It is a comprehensive 2- year study program focusing on insights into contemporary social and societal issues from Social, Cultural, and Political Psychology.
Portugal
School Name:University Institute of Lisbon
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
School Website: https://www.iscte-iul.pt/
Program Website: https://www.iscte-iul.pt/course/75/master-msc-in-psychology-of-intercultural-relations
Notes: University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) offers an MSc in Psychology of Intercultural Relations. The program is a research-led multi-disciplinary training that focuses on social, cultural, and political psychology as well as conflict negotiation, mediation, human rights, and intercultural communication.
Ukraine
School Name: National Pedagogical University
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
School Website: http://www.npu.edu.ua/en/home
Program Website: http://www.fp.npu.edu.ua/ua/pro-fakultet/kafedry/kafedra-politychnoi-psykholohii-ta-sotsialno-pravovykh-tekhnolohii/17-kafedra-politychnoi-psykholohii-ta-sotsialno-pravovykh-tekhnolohii
United Kingdom
School Name: Bournemouth University
Location: Fern Barrow, Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom
School Website: www1.bournemouth.ac.uk/
Program Website: https://www1.bournemouth.ac.uk/study/courses/ma-political-psychology
Notes: MA program in Political Psychology launched in September 2016
School Name: Keele University
Location: Newcastel Under Lyme, United Kingdom
School Website: https://www.keele.ac.uk/psychology/
Program Website: https://www.keele.ac.uk/pgtcourses/appliedsocialandpoliticalpsychology/
Notes: A new (2018) MSc program in Applied Social and Political Psychology
School Name: Queens University Belfast
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
School Website: http://www.qub.ac.uk/
Program Website: http://www.psych.qub.ac.uk/ProspectiveStudents/PostgraduateStudies/MScPoliticalPsychology/
Notes: The Centre for Research in Political Psychology (CResPP) at the School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast, offers an MSc in Political Psychology, the first in the UK.
School Name: University of Birmingham
Location: Brimingham, England
School Website: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/
Program Website: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/taught/govsoc/global-cooperation-security.aspx#CourseOverviewTab
Notes: MSc Global Cooperation and Security offers a course in Political Psychology of Conflict and Cooperation. The MSc degree provides multidisciplinary training in Political Psychology and International Relations and focuses on the role of values, emotions, and beliefs in shaping the possibilities of conflict, cooperation and security at the international level.
School Name: University of Birmingham
Location: Brimingham, England
School Website: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/
Program Website: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/taught/govsoc/political-psychology-international-relations.aspx
Notes: The Institute for Conflict, Cooperation and Security (ICCS), in partnership with the Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS), is delighted to announce the introduction of a new MSc degree in the Political Psychology of International Relations, which will welcome its first students to the University of Birmingham in September 2017. This flagship programme will build on existing strengths in Security Studies and International Relations by providing research-led multi-disciplinary training in the psychological mechanisms of decision-making at the international level.
School Name: University of Kent
Location: Canterbury, England
School Website: http://www.kent.ac.uk/
Program Website: http://www.kent.ac.uk/psychology/msc/political-psychology-msc.html
Notes: University of Kent offers an MSc in Political Psychology from September 2016. University of Kent has an active interdisciplinary program of research in political psychology, carried out by the Political Psychology Lab which brings together researchers from the School of Psychology and the School of Politics and International Relations.
United States
School Name: Arizona State University
Location: Online
School Website: https://www.asu.edu/
Program Website: https://spgs.clas.asu.edu/degrees/graduate/ma-political-psychology
Notes: The School of Politics and Global Studies at ASU offers an online M.A. in Political Psychology.
School Name: The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Online Campus
Location: Online
School Website: http://www.thechicagoschool.edu/
Program Website: http://www.thechicagoschool.edu/online/
Notes: The Chicago School offers an online M.A. in Psychology, International Psychology Specialization with a concentration in Political Psychology.
School Name: City University of New York Graduate Center
Location: New York, New York
School Website: http://www.cuny.edu/
Program Website: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Psychology
Notes: The Graduate Center offers an interdisciplinary concentration in the Psychology of Political Behavior.
School Name: Lewis-Clark State College
Location: Lewiston, ID
School Website: http://www.lcsc.edu/
Program Website: http://catalog.lcsc.edu/academic-programs/social-sciences-division/academic-certificates-minors/political-psychology-minor/
Notes: Political psychology is one of 10 minors offered in the Social Sciences Division.
School Name: The Ohio State University
Location: Columbus, OH
School Website: http://www.osu.edu/
Program Website: http://polisci.osu.edu/graduate/fields-study/political-psychology
Notes: OSU has one of the leading Political Psychology programs in the world. It offers coverage of citizen political thought and behavior, as well as elite behavior and international politics.
School Name: Stony Brook University
Location: Stony Brook, NY
School Website: http://www.stonybrook.edu/
Program Website: http://www.stonybrook.edu/polsci/
MA Program Website: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/MApoliticalscience/index.php
PhD Program Website: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/polisci/graduate/phd/phd_program.php
Notes: The program focuses on the content and structure of political beliefs and attitudes, the processing of political information, and the factors that influence political judgments and decisions.
School Name: University of California, Irvine
Location: Irvine, CA
School Website: http://www.uci.edu/
Program Website: http://www.polisci.uci.edu/ps_psych
Notes: The program draws on the School of Social Sciences’ tradition of interdisciplinary research and boasts the active participation of distinguished faculty in political science, psychology, critical theory and medicine.
School Name: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Location: Minneapolis, MN
School Website: http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.html
Program Website: http://www.polisci.umn.edu/politicalpsych/
Notes: Home of the Center for the Study of Political Psychology (CSPP), widely regarded as one of the premier research and graduate training centers in the United States.
School Name: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
School Website: https://www.unl.edu/
Program Website: https://polisci.unl.edu/graduate-student-resources.
Notes: UNL offers both MA and PhD degrees in political science with a concentration in political psychology and biopolitics.
School Name: Washington State University
Location: Pullman, WA
School Website: http://www.wsu.edu/
Program Website: http://libarts.wsu.edu/pppa/undergraduate/index.asp
Notes: The Department of Political Science at Washington State University offers graduate students the option of specializing in the sub-field of Political Psychology as one of their main Ph.D. Preliminary Examination fields (OR) as a selected area of specialization in their program of study for the M.A. in Global Justice and Security Studies.