Yale School of Medicine’s psychiatry, psychology, and clinical psychology programs were ranked among the country’s best graduate school specialties by U.S. News & World Report in its 2019 rankings.
Among psychiatry programs, Yale ranked fourth in the country based on data and surveys for 2018, and third for psychology. Yale’s clinical psychology program tied for fourth. Yale was the only medical school to be ranked among the top four in the three specialties.
"At Yale, we have long appreciated the vitality and impact of our Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry. The new U.S. News & World Report 2019 rankings of Graduate and Medical Programs further attests to the remarkable robustness of our psychiatry-psychology community," said John H. Krystal, MD, Chair of the Yale Department of Psychiatry. "Yale ranked #3 in psychology, #4 in clinical psychology and #4 in psychiatry. No other university in the country ranks in the top five programs in all three areas. There are already many bridges between the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry and the new rankings spur us to look for new opportunities for synergy across departments."
According to U.S. News, rankings are based on reputational surveys of academic leaders, including deans, and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school’s faculty, research, and students.
Statistical surveys of more than 2,000 programs were conducted, and U.S. News considered reputation surveys sent to more than 20,500 academics and professionals in 2017 and early 2018.
Psychiatry was a new specialty ranking for medical schools this year, along with anesthesiology, obstetrics and gynecology, radiology, and surgery.
The Yale Department of Psychiatry is a world leader in patient care, research, and education. It led all U.S. medical schools in National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding for psychiatric research in 2017. Its faculty and researchers continue to make discoveries that are transforming the understanding and treatment of mental illness and addiction.