Which colleges are recommended if you want to study animal psychology?

Psychology is the study of human and animal behavior. Psychologists in academic settings teach and conduct research designed to increase our knowledge about behavior. Psychologists also work in governmental and industrial organizations carrying out basic and applied research and providing professional advice. Many clinical psychologists are employed in clinics or in hospitals or are engaged in private practice, focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders. Clinical psychologists are to be distinguished from psychiatrists, who are physicians (M.D.'s) with specialized training in the treatment of mental disorders. Job opportunities within the profession of psychology for those with only an undergraduate degree are quite limited. Most vocational opportunities in psychology require advanced professional training; usually through the Ph.D. degree and typically requiring 4 or 5 years of postgraduate work and including extensive work in research methods. Some opportunities for teaching psychology at the junior college or high school level, or for work as a psychologist in a business, school, or hospital, are available to those with a master's degree (2 or 3 years of postgraduate work).