• Overview
• School Psychology MS
  • Requirements
  • Program Objectives
• General Psychology MA
• Specialization in Applied Behavior Analysis MA
• Application Procedures
• Current Graduate Students

The Master of Science (M.S.) program in Psychology with an emphasis in School Psychology is a three year full-time, minimum 79 graduate hour program that prepares individuals for practice as School Psychologists. At program completion, students are given institutional recommendations for the Pupil Personnel Services Credential with Advanced Specialization in School Psychology. Nine undergraduate courses are required as prerequisites and all courses for the M.S. program with an emphasis in School Psychology are at the graduate level. Credit is not given for undergraduate classes, remedial classes, or coursework designed to remove deficiencies. A total of 500 clock hours of supervised practicum experience is required during the first two years of coursework. During the third year of the program, students complete one full year of supervised internship experience consisting of a minimum of 1200 clock hours, at least 600 of which must be in a school setting.

The M.S. program provides future school psychologists with a solmid professional and academic foundation reflecting depth and diversity in both psychology and education. All students develop an understanding, respect for, and responsiveness to culture and individual differences. The program emphasizes the importance of delivering school psychological services from a consultation framework to prevent and remediate learning and adjustment problems experienced by children and adolescents. Students are taught to link assessment methodologies to the development of empirically-based interventions. They learn to view problems from a systems/ecological perspective focusing on the child, the family, the school, and the community, and to use a scientific problem solving approach in their work. Both the theoretical and the empirical bases of professional practice are emphasized in inner city, suburban, and rural settings.

Please go to the "Prerequisites" page under Graduate Overview for a list of the prerequisites for this program.