The UGA Department of Psychology, within the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, is a nationally recognized department with award-winning professors who are dedicated to providing the highest quality education possible to our students. Students graduating from our undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. programs have gone on to successful careers in a variety of academic, research, and applied settings. Graduate work leading to the PhD degree is offered in four areas: clinical psychology; cognitive neuroscience; social, developmental, and health psychology; and industrial–organizational psychology. Students are admitted directly into one of the four doctoral programs, and they are ordinarily required to obtain the master’s degree on the way to the doctoral degree. Foreign language proficiency is not required by the department. Research foci within each of the four programs span a broad range of areas in psychological science. The Clinical Psychology program is a scientist-practitioner model program accredited by the American Psychological Association and seeks to prepare students for a variety of professional roles by providing a solid foundation in technique, theory, and research in clinical psychology. The Cognitive Neuroscience program teaches doctoral students to perform independent research that connects brain structure and function to mental processes. Research in the Social, Developmental, and Health Psychology program spans all three disciplines and addresses topics such as social relationships, risk and resilience, cognitive development, and health behaviors. The Industrial-Organizational Psychology program permits students to concentrate in leadership, mentoring, human factors psychology, industrial-organizational psychology, psychometrics, and related areas. The Industrial-Organizational Psychology Master’s Program (IOMP) provides graduate-level training in industrial-organizational psychology for working professionals. Specialized facilities for graduate training/research in psychology include: the Psychology Clinic, which provides diagnostic and therapeutic services; the University Testing and Evaluation Center; a child development subject pool, and infant and child research laboratories both within the department and at the McPhaul Children’s Center; the Institute for Behavioral Research; the Institute of Gerontology; laboratories for human psychophysiological and electroencephalographic studies; the Bio-Imaging Center; as well as a variety of laboratories within the realm of cognitive/experimental psychology; animal laboratories for behavioral and neuroscience research; and a colony of nonhuman primates for behavioral studies. Students are expected to begin graduate work in the fall semester following their admission. The department does not require applications for financial aid; any student considered eligible by the department will be notified if additional information is required. Contact Information Graduate Program Administrator Elizabeth Davis - 706-542-8266 - gradpsyc@uga.edu
