Program Outcomes

Time to Complete PhD Program*

Curriculum requirements are structured around a 5-year training period:  three years of coursework, a dissertator year (including internship application), and a predoctoral internship year.  Individual students’ completion times vary as a function of work and family obligations, additional coursework, and time to complete the dissertation. A critical factor in timely completion of the PhD program is dissertation progress (i.e., proposal defended, data collection underway) prior to the start of internship.

Table 1 shows completion times, based on the proportion of students graduating within the last seven years.

Table 1:  Completion times for recent graduates (N = 52)*

Mean time to completion = 8 years

Median time to completion = 7 years

* Based on students graduating December 2000 through August 2007.

Program Costs

The vast majority of PhD students are fully funded for their years on campus through a combination of in-department and out-of-department assistantships and fellowships. Graduate assistantships and fellowships pay a monthly stipend, carry a full tuition waiver, and provide an excellent benefits package.

Funding Information

Current information on graduate tuition rates is available at the graduate school webpage.

For additional information about rates, reciprocity rates, segregated fees and stipends, please refer to our Funding Page.  

Internships

Table 2 provides information on the most recent seven internship cohorts.  Internship Year refers to the year that the internship was completed.  (Students who complete the internship during 2007-08 applied for that internship during 2006-07.) 

Attrition

To provide prospective students with data on attrition rates, the Committee on Accreditation recommends that the number of students withdrawn from the program for any reason during the last seven years (n = 7) be divided by the current number of matriculated students (n = 62).  For our program this gives an attrition rate of 11%. 

Licensure Rate

To provide prospective students with data on licensure rates, the Committee on Accreditation requests that programs determine the proportion of graduates in the last 10 years (excluding those graduating in the most recent two years) who have been granted licenses to practice psychology by their state licensing boards.  For our program, 51.2% of these recent graduates have acheived licensure.  This figure is based on survey responses from 31 of 43 alumni (a 69% response rate) graduating between August 1997 and August 2005.