Admission Information

Please note this is not considered a terminal degree and students are not admitted for the M.A. program only.

Admission Requirements

The department accepts as graduate students only those who show definite promise for completing the requirements for advanced degrees. Meeting the minimum admission standards or having extensive undergraduate course work in psychology does not guarantee acceptance, since the number of applicants who can be admitted is limited. Preference is given to those applicants who have a well-balanced background of psychology courses and some background in science and mathematics. Students who do not have an undergraduate major in psychology but who otherwise satisfy these requirements may apply. 

For consideration for admission, the applicant must have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree (official transcript(s) required to verify degree).
• Satisfactory undergraduate scholastic average
• Minimum of 32 quarter hours (24 semester hours) in psychology. This total should include a three semester hour (four quarter hour) elementary statistics course as well as a course in experimental psychology. A course in History and Systems is also desirable.
• The departmental graduate admission committee will determine, on the basis of a consideration of each student’s proposed program of study, whether the minimum 32 quarter hours in psychology is sufficient for advanced study.
• Official Graduate Record Examination results of the Verbal and Quantitative tests. It is highly recommended that you also submit
  scores from the Subject Test in Psychology, although it is not required.
• Three letters of recommendation from academic sources.
• Vita/Resume