Psychologists Licensed in CA - By School

Here's something interesting: The number of psychologists licensed in the state of California between 11/1/97 and 11/1/01, broken down by the school they attended.

www.psychboard.ca.gov/numofgrads.pdf

I notice a great many of the CA-approved schools are represented, some with a significant number of individuals.

I've only glanced at it, but some patterns are apparent. The big and prestigious research universities are seriously under-represented. Most new psychologists seem to be coming out of the relatively low-prestige institutions set up specifically to train psychologists.

Here's some representative examples:

CA-Approved:

Cal Coast 9
Cal. Grad. Inst.- W. LA 75
Newport 8
N. Cal. Grad. U. 3
Ryokan Col. LA 39
Western Inst. Soc. Rsrch. 1

Research schools:

Claremont G.U. 3
Harvard 2
Stanford 3
UC Berkeley 11
UCLA 39
UCSF 1
USC 53

Other RA psych schools:

CIIS 25
CSPP 822
Fielding 28
Fuller 58
ITP 9
JFKU 2
Nova SE 7
Pacific Grad. School Psych 73
Pacific Grad. I. 13
Saybrook 2
Union Inst. 5
USIU 87
(USIU recently merged with CSPP to form Alliant U., accounting for a whopping 909)
Wright I. 95

 

actually, makes sense

It sort of makes sense that research institutions aren't getting the numbers in the psy. practice area. It seems to take longer to get a research degree. and if you don't need it, why take the extra time and expense.
I don't really have the non-regionally accredited option in my state. but if I did have that option, and it lead to a professional credential, I would consider it.
All the best!

 

Re: Re: Psychologists Licensed in CA - By School

Yes. Stanford hasn't even been offering a clinical psych doctoral program as far as I know. I only included it for purposes of comparison. But Stanford is rolling out a new (on-campus) Psy.D. though, offered in cooperation with the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in Palo Alto, which has more experience in this than they do. The latter is now offering an APA-accredited DL masters of their own.

http://www.pgsp.edu/distance.htm

Alliant has certainly found a niche, haven't they? I think that one implication is that in some fields it isn't necessary to graduate from a "top tier" program. Alliant arguably might be a better choice than Stanford, judging from the size of the program, its longer history and the breadth of its offerings. That speaks to the utility of some of the other less-prestigious schools that are periodically beaten up on Degreeinfo.

Ryokan is now offering a DL Psy.D.:

http://www.ryokan.edu/index2.html

I'm not making any claims in their behalf, I just included them because they are well known DL schools that generate a lot of comment here, so it's interesting to see how they did.

 

Thank You

Bill, the time and effort you've spent in gathering and disseminating this type of information is really appreciated. It provides an excellent framework for more intelligent discussions. Thanks.

 

Re: Thank You

 

great work

I agree. It was great to collect this information. Nice work!
all the best!

 

MFT Results

While we are on the subject, here are the California Board of Behavioral Sciences MFT written exam statistics for 7/1/01 - 12/31/01, broken down by school:

www.bbs.ca.gov/pdf/mftwbs.pdf

Information is given for all takers and first-time takers. Like in the bar exam, it seems that if you fail in your first try, chances are poor you will pass in subsequent tries.

I notice that nobody from the University of California took the exam. Presumably that's because UC doesn't offer MFT programs.

I've listed some representative schools and ranked them by percentage who passed on the first try. The number in parentheses is the number taking the exam for the first time.

Mount St. Mary's Col. 100% (4)
San Jose State 100% (4)
Cal. Grad. Inst. 100% (1) CA-approved
Fuller 100% (14)
CIIS 83% (23)
ITP 80% (5)
CSULB 80% (5)
Holy Names 80% (5)
USF 77% (17)
U. Sta. Monica 75% (4) CA-approved
Loyola Marymount 75% (8)
SF State 75% (20)
U. Southern California 67% (3)
Pepperdine 66% (35)
CSU Hayward 62% (13)
Ryokan Col. 57% (7) CA-approved
Trinity Col. of Grad. St. 57% (4) CA-approved
New College of CA 56% (9)
CSUDH 56% (9)
Notre Dame D'Namur 55% (11)
National U. 55% (40)
CSULA 44% (9)
CSU Fresno 33% (3)
Azusa Pacific 19% (16)
Loma Linda 0% (2)
Am. Behav. Studies Inst. 0% (1) CA-approved
So. Calif. Bible College 0% (2) CA-approved

 

just my 2cents

I had the pleasure of studying under some Roykan trained teachers once in an accupunture school and found them a bit unusual but very interesting .