Welcome to the Graduate Program in Psychology!

Graduate Program Overview
Psychology with a Focus on Human Cognition and Development
The Graduate Program in Psychology is a small, selective, research-intensive program that focuses on Human Cognition and Development. Areas of specialization are Cognition and Language, Cognitive and Social Development, and Social Cognition and Personality—and faculty and students often work at the intersection of these areas.

The department accepts mainly Ph.D. students, who obtain a master’s degree in the process of working for the doctorate. But every year a few well-qualified students may be accepted for a Master’s of Science degree. Both Ph.D. and the occasional M.S. students define an area of specialization through their research experiences and the selection of graduate seminars (see Program Requirements for greater detail and Course Listings in the catalog).

All students actively engage in research and collaborate closely with faculty members, and occasionally student colleagues. Department faculty conduct research on: attention, cognition, and language; social cognition, motivation, and personality; and cognitive, social, and emotional development in socio-relational and socio-cultural contexts.  See the Faculty Overview (below) and individual faculty and graduate students’ web pages to obtain more details about the current research activities in the department. 

In addition, psychology faculty and students work with researchers from other departments, programs, and colleges, including Women's Studies and Cognitive Science as well as colleges of Business and Education, and they also collaborate with researchers at other institutions. 

To read more about our program, please see the Program Description links to the right and the College of Arts and Sciences Psychology graduate program description.For general information about graduate study in the College of Arts and Sciences, visit the College Graduate Studies page.