ADMISSIONS AND APPLICATION
The application process is done online or you may print an application and mail it to the Graduate Center. It is important to remember that there is no Spring admission for the Ph.D. Psychology program, and we do not offer summer courses. Each subprogram typically accepts 5-12 students ever year and announces application decisions between February and March.
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For more information, you may contact:
Office of Admissions (Room: 7201)
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10016
Telephone: 1-212-817-7470; Fax: 1-212-817-1624;
Email: admissions@gc.cuny.edu
Additional Application Information
- Required Application Materials
- Admission Inteviews
- GPA, GRE, and TOEFL Requirements
- Applying to the Health Concentration or Psychology and Law Concentration
- Applying to Psychology Subprograms
- Arranging a visit
Required Application Materials
The admissions process is self-managed, which means that you, the applicant, collect your transcripts and letters of recommendation in sealed envelopes and submit all of your documents (except the GRE and TOEFL scores) together with your completed application to the Office of Admissions.
Make sure your application is complete and contains:
- Application Form
- Personal Statement
- $125 Application fee (Check or Money Order made out to the CUNY Graduate Center)
- Official Transcripts from ALL post-secondary institutions in unopened envelopes
- Letters of recommendation in sealed envelopes
- Your standardized test scores (i.e. GRE, TOEFL) were requested from ETS to be sent to The CUNY Graduate Center (college code 2113)
- Request for Certificate of Eligibility & Declaration of Finances (International applicants, who are applying for F-1 or J-1 student immigration status, only)
Depending on the situation, prospective students may be asked to come in for an interview, or take part in a phone interview.
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GPA, GRE, and TOEFL requirements
GPA and minimum score requirements for the GRE and TOEFL vary across the 11 subprograms. Please contact the subprogram heads here for more information.
GRE Psychology Subject Test
The GRE Psychology Subject Test is required for Clinical Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and Social-Personality Psychology. It recommended for Developmental and Neuropsychology.
TOEFL
An applicant who has not studied in an English-speaking country must take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), administered internationally by Educational Testing Service, and request ETS to report examination results directly to the Admissions Office, the City University Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Inquiries concerning this examination may be made to: Test of English as a Foreign Language, Box 6151, Princeton, NJ 08540, U.S.A. or to most American embassies and consulates.
Applying to the Health Concentration or Psychology and Law Concentration
Students must first be admitted to one of the subprograms (i.e., Biopsychology, Clinical, Developmental, Environmental, Experimental, Experimental Cognition, Forensic, Industrial/Organizational, Learning Processes, Neuropsychology, and Social-Personality) to apply for the Health Psychology, or Psychology and Law Concentration, usually in their first or second year of doctoral study. For details, please visit: Health Concentration or Psychology and Law Concentration websites.
Applying to Psychology Subprograms
You may apply to only ONE subprogram at a time. If you are not admitted into the subprogram of your first choice, you may apply to another subprogram by submitting a new application and fee for potential admissions for the following year. Occasionally, in some programs the admission committee may re-route the application.
Prerequisites for application to Psychology subprograms
Applicants should have completed at least 15 credits in undergraduate psychology courses, including one laboratory course in experimental psychology and one course in statistics. It is expected that applicants will have received at least a B average in graduate courses completed at other institutions. Applicants may be requested to appear for an interview.
Students are specifically selected for the Clinical subprogram. For admission to the Clinical subprogram, all students who pass an initial screening based on academic record and references are required to participate in a personal interview with members of the Clinical faculty and students enrolled in the program.Students should not assume that once accepted for any other Psychology subprogram they can automatically transfer to the Clinical subprogram.
Applications for all 11 Psychology subprograms are available online from the Graduate Center Admissions office. There is one application for all eleven subprograms in Psychology. Some subprograms have additional requirements however. Contact the subprogram you are interested in for more information.
General inquiries should be addressed to Maureen O'Connor, Psychology Executive Officer, or Maria-Helena Reis, Psychology Program Administrator.
BIOPSYCHOLOGY |
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY |
LEARNING PROCESSES & BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS |
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY |
ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY |
COGNITION, BRAIN, & BEHAVIOR |
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE |
FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY Director of Clinical Training: Michele Galietta |
INDUSTRIAL/ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY |
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY |
SOCIAL PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY |
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