Admission Requirements
Master of Arts in Psychology
Applicants should apply by March 15 for Fall Admission and October 15 for Spring admission. To be eligible for admission, the applicant must:
- Apply to enter the Master of Arts degree program.
- Complete at least 18 semester hours of undergraduate credit in psychology and/or educational psychology, including at least three semester hours each in a statistics course and in a general experimental (laboratory) course.
- Have an undergraduate cumulative average of at least 3.00 on a 4.00 point scale (2.50 for provisional status) in all psychology and/or educational psychology courses pursued.
- Obtain a combined score of at least 950 on the combined Verbal and Quantitative sections of the Graduate Record Examination (850 for provisional status); or a score of at least 550 on the psychology subject test of the Graduate Record Examination (450 for provisional status).
- Supply at least three appropriate, satisfactory letters of reference.
- Satisfy all applicable University admission requirements.
- Be approved for admission by the graduate coordinator.