入学要求

注:申请截止日期为2023年12月1日.

The ISU Doctor of 心理学 program requires a minimum of four years of full-time, 现场研究, 再加上一年的校外实习.  该项目不提供兼职或远程教育.

申请临床博士(小组).D.) program will be accepted between September 1, 2022 and December 1, 2022 for the Fall 2023 cohort.  All materials must be received by the deadline; applications and application materials received after December 1st will not be considered for admission. Indiana State University does not discriminate on the basis of race, 性, 性取向, 宗教, 障碍, 资深地位, 和年龄. The department actively recruits students from diverse backgrounds.

Our program adheres to a practitioner-scientist training model, whereas most 小组.D. 项目遵循从业者-学者模式. Ph.D. 项目往往遵循科学家-实践者的模式. The models speak to the relative balance of clinical work to non-clinical work, as well as the emphasis on research (contributing to knowledge) versus scholarship (learning existing knowledge).

而不是Ph值.D. programs, we place more emphasis on the practice of psychology than on research. 关于研究, 尽管我们不遵循传统的“实验室模式”,” in which students are admitted to work only with a particular faculty, we do admit students to the program who have similar research interests with one or more of our faculty. 类似的, we also consider the match between the applicant’s clinical interests and the clinical training and areas of expertise represented among our faculty.

我们的学生从事研究的程度各不相同. 所有学生都要完成一篇论文. 除了, all students in the program are expected to give at least one research or clinical presentation while on campus. 学生 are not required to engage in research beyond their dissertation, 然而，许多人选择这样做. Some faculty will involve students in their research labs starting in the first year, other faculty will begin working with students on research closer to the 3^rd year of the program, when the dissertation topic is being developed. 学生 are free to engage in research with more than one faculty member.

进入小组.D. program is competitive and enrollment is generally limited to 8-9 students per year. Applicants are selected for admission on the basis of GRE scores, 本科和研究生成绩, 推荐信, 临床及研究兴趣, 显著的成就, 还有正式的面试.

进入小组的先决条件.D. program are a minimum of 24 undergraduate credit hours in psychology at an accredited university or college. 这24小时必须包括变态心理学的课程, 研究方法或实验心理学, 和统计数据. 除了, it is preferred that students have taken course in learning or cognition and personality. .

考虑进入小组的最低标准.D. program include an undergraduate grade point average (GPA) of at least 3.0对4.0规模, or a graduate GPA (if more than nine graduate credit hours in 心理学) of 3.5对4.0规模. The Department requires all GRE scores from exams taken within the last five years. For admission into the program we prefer that applicants score above 150 on both the Verbal and Quantitative portions, 写作成绩达到4分.0或以上.  Mean GRE and GPA data for the past several years is displayed below. 不需要GRE心理学高级考试.  Official GRE scores must be received at ISU by the application deadline. It is suggested that applicants take the GRE by early November in order for test scores to be received on time.

An applicant should have the potential to become a professional psychologist, 如推荐信所示. Recommendation letters will ideally come from psychology professors and/or mental health professionals familiar with your academic and/or professional and interpersonal competence, and who can speak competently to your ability to succeed in a doctoral program in clinical psychology. Letters from individuals who are familiar with doctoral training in psychology are strongly preferred. Additional letters of recommendation beyond these three may be submitted, but are not required. Applicants must have official transcripts from all institutions of higher education in which they have been enrolled sent to the ISU 招生 Office (Indiana State University 研究生 招生, 欢迎中心, 北第六街318号, 泰瑞豪特, IN 47809-1904)

入学面试只在受邀的基础上进行. Approximately 25% of applicants are invited in mid-January for an initial, 在线(Zoom)面试将于1月下旬进行. 在这些访谈之后, applicants judged to be have a high likelihood of being offered admission into the program will be invited to an follow-up, 校园面试. 在可能的情况下, we try to accommodate scheduling conflicts for those applicants who are invited to interview, 但是不能在我们预定的面试日期来. 所有面试的旅费由申请人承担. Decisions on admission and financial assistance usually are made by early March and offers must be accepted by April 15th.

学生 entering the program with previous graduate work should not assume automatic transfer of credit for graduate courses. After arrival, transfer credit will be evaluated on a course-by-course basis. Up to nine credit hours may be transferred for graduate credit in non-clinical core courses. 才有资格获得转学学分, the course must be judged to be comparable to a required ISU course and should have been taken within the past three years; the student should have earned with a grade of an A or higher in the course and will be required to demonstrate the requisite skills associated with the course; this can usually be accomplished by a syllabus review and presentation of a portfolio of relevant coursework.

If you have any questions about the application process, please contact Dr. 凯文·博林斯基，鸟叔主席.D. 招生委员会, 凯文.Bolinskey@salamzone.com.