Grads - Career paths after Waterloo

Graduating PhD students from the Cognitive Psychology program have been highly successful securing jobs, both as faculty members in academia and as research scientists at research institutions. Below is a sampling of academic and research institutions where our graduates have moved on to after completing our program.

Faculty positions at academic institutions

Brock University

Carleton University

Cornell University

Dalhousie University

McMaster University

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Queen's University

San Jose State University

St. Francis Xavier University

Teesside University

Trent University

SUNY Geneseo

University of Guelph

University of Manitoba

University of New Brunswick

University of Otago

University of Ottawa

University of Regina

University of Saskatchewan

University of Toronto

University of Waterloo

University of Wellington

University of Windsor

University of Winnipeg

Western University

Wilfrid Laurier University

Research positions in industry and government

Allen Institute

Amazon

BEworks

Department of National Defence (DND)

Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC)

Facebook

Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO)

IBM Global

Institute for Aerospace Research, National Research Council of Canada

Mining Industry Human Resources Council

NASA - Ames Research Center

Naval Health Research Center (USA)

Rotman Research Institute

Many graduates from our program have also held prestigious postdoctoral fellowships at the following institutions: Brown University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University, University of British Columbia, University of California – Berkeley, University of Chicago, University College London, University of Illinois, University of Toronto, Yale University.