2025 Best Clinical Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

If you pursue a doctor's degree in clinical psychology, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #12 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 19 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for clinical psychology students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 486 doctor's degrees in clinical psychology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Clinical Psychology School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of clinical psychology for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality clinical psychology program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to clinical psychology students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other clinical psychology students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized clinical psychology related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for clinical psychology students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Clinical Psychology Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Clinical Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Clinical Psychology in the Middle Atlantic Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in clinical psychology.

10 Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

1

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

8 Annual Graduates

Columbia University in the City of New York is a wonderful decision for students interested in a doctor's degree in clinical psychology. Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in clinical psychology from Columbia University in the City of New York

2

Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

15 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in clinical psychology has to check out Hofstra University. Located in the suburb of Hempstead, Hofstra is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in clinical psychology from Hofstra University

3

George Washington University
Washington, DC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

23 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in clinical psychology has to take a look at George Washington University. GWU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Washington.More information about a doctorate in clinical psychology from George Washington University

4

Loyola University Maryland
Baltimore, MD

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

19 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Loyola University Maryland if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in clinical psychology. Loyola Maryland is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Baltimore.More information about a doctorate in clinical psychology from Loyola University Maryland

5

LIU Post
Brookville, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

30 Annual Graduates

LIU Post is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Brookville.More information about a doctorate in clinical psychology from LIU Post

6

Yeshiva University
New York, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

39 Annual Graduates

Yeshiva is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York.More information about a doctorate in clinical psychology from Yeshiva University

7

St John's University - New York
Queens, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

8 Annual Graduates

STJ is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Queens.More information about a doctorate in clinical psychology from St John’s University - New York

8

La Salle University
Philadelphia, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

23 Annual Graduates

La Salle is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Philadelphia.More information about a doctorate in clinical psychology from La Salle University

9

Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus
Teaneck, NJ

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

21 Annual Graduates

Located in the suburb of Teaneck, FDU is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population.More information about a doctorate in clinical psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus

10

University at Albany
Albany, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

8 Annual Graduates

Located in the medium-sized city of Albany, UAlbany is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in clinical psychology from University at Albany

Best Clinical Psychology Colleges by State

Explore the best clinical psychology schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	366	210
Pennsylvania	311	142
Maryland	190	15
New Jersey	165	21
District of Columbia	143	119

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Clinical Psychology Related Rankings by Major

One of 17 majors within the Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology area of study, Clinical Psychology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
School Psychology	145
Counseling Psychology	79
Educational Psychology	29
Industrial & Organizational Psychology	11
Clinical Child Psychology	9
Forensic Psychology	3
Applied Psychology	1
Applied Behavior Analysis	1

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.