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Program Disclosures

Does the program or institution require students, trainees, and/or staff (faculty) to comply with specific policies or practices related to the institution’s affiliation or purpose? Such policies or practices may include, but are not limited to, admissions, hiring, retention policies, and/or requirements for completion that express mission and values.

If yes, provide website link (or content from brochure) where this specific  information is presented:

Time to Degree Completion for Students Entering the Program

Incoming students are now able to complete their coursework in three, rather than four years. This allows students to concentrate on their dissertations in the fourth year. Students are expected to select dissertation mentors by the end of their third year, and must have an approved dissertation proposal prior to applying for internship.

Please see the following tables for detailed information about time to completion, program costs, internship match rates, and program attrition.

Also, please describe or provide a link to program admissions policies that allow students to enter with credit for prior graduate work, and the expected implications for time to completion. Please indicate NA if not applicable:

Program Policies on Credit for Prior Graduate Work:

Students may transfer up to 15 graduate-level credits (from courses in which they have received a “B” level or above from prior graduate work in Psychology), if the course work is evaluated as equivalent to The Ph.D. Program requirements.

Credit will not be transferred if courses were taken more than five years prior to entry in the Program, or the credit was originally granted for clinical practica, independent research or thesis work. A determination of transfer of credit will not be made until a student has successfully completed at least a semester of coursework in the Program. 

Only graduate-level psychology coursework completed in areas that satisfy the broad and general sequence of requirements enable students to place out of similar coursework within the Program (pending the Director and faculty approval). The courses that students may place out of are:

• Social Psychology
• Lifespan Development
• Cognitive and Affective Bases of Behavior
• Biological Bases of Behavior
• History of Psychology

Other transfer credits can be applied to non-required elective coursework. The Director and faculty will consider each student request after determining the rigor and relevance of the syllabus of the masters-level course.

Transfer credit will have no practical implications for time to completion.

Program Costs

Thanks to the remarkable generous contributions of both private donors and alumni, the Clinical Program provides financial aid based on need to its admitted students. We make it a top priority to work with you in providing some combination of stipends, work study, teaching assistantships, and in your later years of the Program, Clinical Fellowship. Students interested in financial aid will be asked to complete a financial aid form each year. Should you be invited to interview for the Program, please feel free to contact our Program Director, Steve Tuber, to discuss your financial aid situation.