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The industrial-organizational psychology graduate degree program emphasizes the application of psychological science to enhance the performance and well-being of people in organizations. Students receive a strong core foundation in industrial and organizational psychology as well as statistics and research methods. Students may select a thesis option (a good choice for students seeking a research-intensive career) or a non-thesis path in the graduate certificate track of applied workplace psychology.
Quick facts
Official name
Master of science in industrial-organizational psychologyCampus
Program type
Master's degreeAcademic home
College of Arts, Sciences, and Education | Department of Psychological ScienceDelivery mode
100% onlineAccreditation
Higher Learning CommissionCredit hours
40Estimated cost
$38,000.00*This cost is for illustrative purposes only. Your hours and costs will differ, depending on your transfer hours, your course choices and your academic progress. See more about tuition and financial aid.
Career prospects
This program will prepare you to develop assessments of people for selection and placement into jobs, effective training programs, strategies for organizational development, measurement of performance, and ways to promote quality of work-life.
Program structure
Delivery of this program is 100% online: no campus visits are required. Courses are semester-based. Students typically take one or two classes each semester and finish in two to three years.
Course work includes
- Organizational development
- Small group dynamics
- Job analysis and performance management
Delivery
100% onlineCalendar system
SemesterTypical program length
3 yearsTypical course load
2 classes per semesterAccreditation
Missouri University of Science and Technology is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, one of six regional institutional accreditors in the United States.
Faculty spotlight
Dr. Clair Reynolds Kueny is program director of the master of science in industrial-organizational psychology program and assistant professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She earned a master's and Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology with a concentration in quantitative methods in behavioral science from Saint Louis University. Dr. Kueny’s research interests include employee discretionary behaviors, including initiative, citizenship behaviors and counterproductive work behaviors, and the unintended consequences of these behaviors. She has over six years of experience designing and teaching courses for all modalities. She has received two teaching grants to support her development of the online modality curriculum for the program.