online master's degree of industrial and organizational psychology
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$680 per credit hour.
36 total credit hours.
create meaningful change in the workplace through applied psychology.
The Master of Science in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Bellevue University equips you with the tools to understand human behavior in organizations and apply psychology to improve performance, culture, and engagement. This program blends scientific research with real-world application, helping you analyze workplace challenges and influence positive organizational outcomes. You’ll explore key topics such as motivation, leadership, assessment, organizational change, and data-driven decision-making. Through hands-on projects and collaboration with peers, faculty, and industry experts, you’ll learn to design innovative strategies that enhance employee well-being and organizational effectiveness.
Learn from expert faculty who support your professional growth.
In this program, you’ll benefit from flexible scheduling, small classes, and faculty who understand the demands of working professionals. Bellevue’s I-O Psychology faculty bring expertise from both business and public sectors, offering practical insights grounded in organizational development, leadership, and research. You’ll have opportunities to connect with professionals in the community, expand your network, and apply what you learn to real-world scenarios—like developing organizational assessments, analyzing team dynamics, or improving talent management systems. The program is fully aligned with the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) education and training standards at the master’s level, ensuring a rigorous and industry-relevant learning experience.
Focus, collaborate, and build a career that makes an impact.
The cohort format allows you to take one course at a time with the same group of peers, creating a supportive and engaging environment that fits the demands of working professionals. You’ll complete hands-on projects that strengthen your ability to evaluate organizational systems, develop solutions, and lead change. Recognized for its quality and value, Bellevue University’s program is ranked among the Top 5 Best Online Master’s in Organizational Psychology by Best Colleges. With your MIOP degree, you’ll graduate ready to apply psychological principles to business challenges and drive meaningful change in organizations of all types.
what you'll learn.
In this program, you’ll apply psychological theory and research to real-world workplace challenges, developing data-driven strategies to improve performance, culture, and organizational effectiveness.
upon graduation, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate efficacy in communicating theoretical importance and business application in a way that can be understood across job titles, departments, and organizations.
- Apply current industrial/organizational psychology theory to solve organizational problems.
- Define how to leverage data, analysis techniques, and statistical interpretations to provide meaningful insights that support business decisions.
- Design and conduct assessments and measurements regarding individual, team, and business variables.
- Develop research methods that address applied business topics.
- Demonstrate the ability to identify organizational problems and recommend strategic solutions.
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology degree courses
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Requirements (36 credit hours)
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This course focuses on the study of Industrial and Organizational Psychology from a practitioner perspective by covering the major applied and theoretical practices common in the field. Students explore organizational strategy of systems, performance, and human capital management.
In this course, students will analyze the workplace from a social psychology perspective. This includes employee interactions, attitudes, motivation, and other psychological processes that affect the employee environment.
This course introduces students to best practices and applications of job analysis and performance appraisal. Students will review approaches and evaluate the information gathered from these processes to support various organizational objectives including selection, compensation, employee motivation, training, and organizational culture.
This course develops deep insights into how various aspects of social capital such as reputation, leadership, organizational policies, culture, and relationships combine to maximize organizational value utilizing these intangible assets.
This course will explore how organizational interventions can be designed to mitigate risks for companies and implement change. The course will outline how to identify crucial factors that impact organizations, techniques used to assess needs, and application of an organizational development plan.
This baseline course in statistics will provide the student with essential skills to perform various data analyses, interpret data output, and communicate findings to stakeholders in organizations. Introduction to probability, means, variances, correlation, ANOVA, and regression applied to psychological data.
This course prepares students to assess, utilize and interpret selection measurements that are designed to identify the best-fit candidates while also reducing any potential adverse impacts on applicants.
This course addresses how to design psychometrics to support talent management and engagement within an organization. The topics of test development, reliability, validity, and data interpretation will be covered.
Supervised practicum experience with applied projects in Industrial/ Organizational Psychology. Projects will vary on a term basis and are dependent on faculty approval of student proposals. Topics relevant to applied projects such as proposal writing and presentation skills will also be covered.
This is an advanced course on statistical techniques used in psychology. The course will cover linear models of correlation and regression as well as multivariate models such as multiple regression, ANOVA, and ANCOVA. Students will be introduced to the use of statistical computer software.
This course provides instruction in methods and design when conducting research in psychology. Students will be required to propose their own research study that is meaningful to the current workplace, create a research model, conduct a literature review, and design an approved research methodology. This proposal can be related to ongoing research or on a topic of interest to the student.
This course refines the scientist and practitioner skills students have acquired throughout the program to highlight the importance of both perspectives within the workplace. Students will complete research projects with a chosen company or other related scenarios upon approval from faculty. Projects will include creation of measurement tools, collection and analysis of data, data visualizations, and professional deliverables relevant to the study and organization.
Major Requirements Credits
= 36 total credits*
University Accreditation
Bellevue University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission ( hlcommission.org ), a regional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Whether a college, university, or program is accredited is important to students receiving financial aid, employers who provide tuition assistance, donors, and the federal government.
This program is considered a non-licensure degree/certificate program and is not intended for those seeking licensure or the practice of licensed profession. This program may be relevant to multiple occupations that do not require licensure and was not designed to meet educational requirements for any specific professional license or certification.
*Consult with an admissions counselor to determine your eligible credits, as well as to verify minimum graduation requirements for this degree. Transfer credits must be from a regionally accredited college or university. Bellevue University makes no promises to prospective students regarding the acceptance of credit awarded by examination, credit for prior learning, or credit for transfer until an evaluation has been conducted.
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