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The Department of Psychology at Tufts
University grants both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
experimental psychology.
The graduate program in psychology is
designed to prepare scholars for entering scientifically
oriented research and/or teaching jobs. To this end, the
program requirements for the Master's and Ph.D. degree
have two major goals: 1) to provide a broad-based,
high-level exposure to scientific psychology, and 2) to
provide in depth experimentally-oriented knowledge of an
area of psychology.
Director of Graduate
Studies:
Dr. Holly A. Taylor
Department Chair:
Dr.
Robert Cook
Areas of concentration
include:
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Biological
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Cognitive
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Developmental
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Experimental Clinical
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Social
Download the department's
Graduate Handbook for program descriptions, requirements, and outlines.
(Adobe Acrobat format: click
here to obtain free download of the Acrobat Reader.)
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.
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),
and must demonstrate statistical competence.
Program Requirements
The program is based around
five major annual
milestones:
Year 1: A 1st year project
Year 2: Completion of Masters’ Thesis
Year 3:
3rd Year Comprehensive Paper/Exam
Year 4: 4th Year Writing Requirement
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
master's and doctoral degrees are described in the
Graduate Handbook.
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