基本上心理系還有再細分認知心理、發展心理、臨床心理、社會心理或甚至是神經科學等，各校的主攻項目皆不太相同，故若對未來的學習道路有ㄧ定的計畫者，則需要更詳細的資料來選擇學校，下列只是US News & World Report的最新美國大學心理系的前二十大排名:

1 Stanford University Stanford, CA
1 University of California--Berkeley Berkeley, CA
3 Harvard University Cambridge, MA
3 University of California--Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
3 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI
3 Yale University New Haven, CT
7 University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL
8 Princeton University Princeton, NJ
8 University of Minnesota--Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN
8 University of Wisconsin--Madison Madison, WI
11 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
11 U of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
13 U of North Carolina--Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC
13 U of Texas--Austin Austin, TX
13 U of Washington Seattle, WA
13 Washington Univ in St. Louis St. Louis, MO
17 Carnegie Mellon Univ Pittsburgh, PA
17 Columbia Univ New York , NY
17 Cornell Uni Ithaca, NY
17 Northwestern Uni Evanston, IL
17 Ohio State Univ Columbus, OH
17 Univ of California--San Diego La Jolla, CA