UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS

Undergraduate Studies

Fordham College offers a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. Applicants to Fordham College must have completed at least 16 academic units including English (4 years), science (2-3 years), mathematics (3-4 years), social studies (2-4 years), and foreign language (2 years).

An electronic application for admission to Fordham College is available.

General undergraduate admission is also available.


Graduate Studies

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences offers a Doctor of Philosophy degree in three areas of psychology: Applied Developmental, Clinical, and Psychometrics. Information specific to each of these programs is available via the links to each program.

An electronic application for admission to the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences is available.
Applicants are admitted to the Psychology Department rather than to faculty labs. Applicants with and without an MA are processed as "Direct" applicants for the Ph.D.. The Psychology Department does not have any terminal MA programs. Applicants who have recently completed empirical research for their Master's Degree may receive credit for this work conditional upon faculty review. Applicants who have recently completed coursework that substantially overlaps required or elective coursework may be eligible to transfer credits and/or waive overlapping requirements, subject to program approval.

Students who enter with an MA degree or graduate credits that did not result in a degree will typically be able to transfer some credits toward their Fordham degree. Decisions about which courses are equivalent, and how many can be transferred depend on several factors, such as whether the student received an MA and whether the MA involved a research-based Thesis. Specific courses that overlap with Fordham requirements are evaluated by the Director of Clinical Training on a case-by-case basis, usually after a student has been admitted to the program. For those students who completed an empirical MA thesis at their previous institutions, the MA thesis requirement may also be waived, provided a committee of Fordham faculty have evaluated the thesis and deemed it comparable to what would be expected of Fordham students. Students who have previously completed (or expect to compete) and MA elsewhere complete the same application as students without prior graduate school experience and comprise the same "pool" of applicants; it is not necessarily advantageous or disadvantageous to have previously enrolled in an MA program although it may be more beneficial in some cases (e.g., students who were not undergraduate Psychology majors).