Program – Psychology and Law PhD Program

Program Description

The Psychology and Law training program requires 63 credits of coursework and a dissertation. (Graduates are not eligible to become licensed clinical psychologists.) This track trains students to generate knowledge at the intersections of psychology and law as academicians and applied researchers. The track emphasizes research training, drawing on areas of psychology such as social, cognitive, developmental, and experimental psychology, decision and policy sciences, and evaluation research methods. If you are interested in any of the other training areas in psychology (e.g., Clinical), please click the link below to view the Psychology Department website.

Click here to see the Psychology Department’s page

If you are looking for the Clinical Psychology program and its faculty, click here.

Admission Requirements

Graduate Online Application: Click here to apply
Personal Statement
Transcripts
Letters of recommendation
Application fee: $75 USD
International students may have additional requirements. Learn about them here.

GRE scores are not required

Tuition, Fees, and Financial Assistance

All students admitted to the Psychology & Law PhD program receive full tuition remission and a yearly stipend for five years. Students are eligible for health insurance for a nominal fee.

Degree Requirements

The curriculum consists of 60 credits. Required courses:

Statistics I & II
Statistics I & II Lab
Research Methods & Design I & II
Experimental Psychology & Law
An Advanced Statistics Elective
Ethics
Cognitive/ Social/ Developmental/ Physiological/ Psychometrics and Advanced Social/ Developmental/ Cognitive/ Physiological (Choose 3 from this list)
Electives (24 credits in Psychology and/or Law and/or Advanced Statistics/Methods)

Additional requirements:

First Doctoral Exam – research project/MA thesis
Comprehensive Examination – grant proposals and/or psychological bulletin article
Second Doctoral Examination – review of domain relevant to the dissertation
Third Doctoral Examination – dissertation