The developmental program is designed to equip its graduates with the necessary conceptual, methodological, and teaching skills for careers in academia or applied developmental research positions. The developmental graduate students frequently collaborate with faculty in related programs within the department (e.g., child-clinical, prevention, and social psychology programs) and with faculty in other programs with allied research interests. The developmental psychology program has seven core faculty members: Drs. Robert Bradley, Nancy Eisenberg, William Fabricius, Gary Ladd, Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant, Morris Okun, and Armando Pina. Students are trained to be researchers and scholars, with the expectation that any practical applications will follow from this basic expertise. Download the Developmental Program Brochure here.

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The curriculum places equal emphasis on coursework and research. It provides training in our core areas. Students are prepared to investigate developmental processes across the life span.		Students are offered flexibility to develop expertise within specific content areas in coordination with active faculty interests, and are encouraged to work with several research faculty.		We are leaders in our fields and active recipeints of grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Drug Abuse, Centers for Disease Control, and the National Science Foundation.		We have strong resources that support our research and training activities. We have one of the strongest quantitative programs in the country, allowing outstanding training in statistics.
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 NATIONAL STATURE OF OUR DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM

The new gold standard index of graduate program rankings is Academic Analytics’ Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index. The RSP Index is a cumulative score representing the scholarly productivity of faculty using their journal and book publications, journal article citations, federally-funded research grants, and honorific awards.

In the latest report (2006-2007), the Developmental Psychology Program at Arizona State University was ranked 4th in the “Psychology, Various” category that included programs in developmental psychology as well as social psychology and health psychology.

Additionally, a study by Byrnes & McNamara (2001) published in Developmental Review empirically evaluated the quality of 97 North American doctoral programs in the developmental sciences. Arizona State University’s Developmental Psychology Program was objectively ranked as among the top quarter of programs in North America. More specifically, our program ranked:

          6^th out of 97 in Graduate Student Placements in Faculty Positions

          7^th out of 97 in Faculty Scholarly Productivity

          17^th out of 97 in Research Impact (citation rates of faculty)

          10^th out of 97 in Journal Editing and Editorial Board Memberships*  

In conclusion, the Developmental Psychology Program at Arizona State University ranks in the top 10 programs under most categories.

*Dr. Nancy Eisenberg’s editorship of Psychological Bulletin was mistakenly not counted and if it had been counted, our ranking would have been 2^nd in this category)