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Download the department's
Graduate Handbook (PDF) for program descriptions, requirements, and outlines.
Components of the Program
All students are admitted to the Ph.D. program, which is comprised of a
pre-Master's and a post-Master's part. Students admitted to the program with
Bachelor's degrees are initially admitted to the pre-Masters component of the
Ph.D. program. After completion of the Master's degree, the student formally
requests to proceed to the Ph.D. program. The decision to admit the student to
the Ph.D. portion of the program is made by a majority vote of the department
faculty. Although most students enter the program with a Bachelor's degree,
students may be admitted with a Master's degree from another institution and
receive advanced standing in the program pending departmental approval. All
students are expected to be full time students and actively involved in research
throughout their graduate studies.
Program Requirements
The program is based around five major annual milestones:
Year 1: A First Year Project (FYP)
Year 2: Completion of Masters' Thesis
Year 3: Third Year Writing Requirement
Year 4: Fourth Year Conceptual Analysis of Dissertation Area (CADA)
Year 5: Completion of Dissertation
Besides providing an easy way for you to measure your
progress in the program, these major projects are designed, along with the
associated course work, to provide you with a strong research oriented
background in your specialty. The specific requirements for the these milestones
are described in detail in the
Graduate Handbook (PDF).
Transfer Students
Students entering the program with a Master's degree in psychology from another
institution must meet with their advisor, the graduate director, and the
department Chair to determine which course and program requirements remain to be
met. Students entering the program with some graduate credits but without a
Master's degree may transfer up to two graduate level courses toward the M.S.,
except when those courses have already been counted for another degree. Graduate
courses taken elsewhere may, however, be used to waive a program requirement
(e.g. statistics). Application for course transfer must be made to the Dean of
the Graduate School, after approval by the department Chair. Additional transfer
courses may be applied to the Ph.D. requirements; however, these courses do not
need to be referred to the Dean of the Graduate School. Students who did not do
an experimental thesis as part of their M.S. degree elsewhere must do a thesis
project at Tufts. Also, all students with an outside M.S. degree in psychology
must do a first-year project (see description in the
Graduate Handbook
(PDF)), and must demonstrate statistical competence.
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