Student Admissions, Outcomes, and Other Data - Counseling Psychology

Counseling Psychology

STUDENT ADMISSIONS, OUTCOMES, AND OTHER DATA

Application Requirements:

APPLICANT MATERIALS

• Graduate application
• Resume
• Personal statement
• Official copies of all undergraduate and graduate transcripts.
• Official GRE scores (Scores must be within the past 5 years. Only the general tests are required; the Psychology Subject Area Test is not required).
• Three letters of recommendation, at least one of which must be from a faculty member from the applicants prior graduate program.

   

  Personal statement

  The statement should not exceed 3 pages single spaced and should include:
  The factors attracted you to counseling psychology and to Cleveland State's program in particular the experiences you have had in applied settings (e.g., hotline experience, residential treatment, case management, clinical counseling, field placements)
  Description of your research experience (e.g. assisting with a faculty member's research, presentations, publications a, Masters thesis)
  Description of your goals for doctoral study and for your career
  Description of your interests in research and practice, particularly as they relate to diverse urban populations

Admissions Decisions Influenced by:

Application Deadline: January 15th (if that date falls on a weekend, the following Monday)

TIME TO COMPLETION:

Table - Time to Completion for all students entering the program

The program can be completed in 5 years of full-time graduate study and requires a Masters degree in counseling, clinical psychology, or closely related field as a pre-requisite to admission. Most current students are taking between 6 years and 7 years to completion, including pre-doctoral internship. If a student elects to complete a 2 year half-time pre-doctoral internship the program, it will take a minimum of 6 years to complete. Transfer students are not admitted into the program. Any applicant with questions about pre-requisites may contact Dr .Donna Schultheiss at d.schultheiss @csuohio.edu or by phone at 216 687-5063.

If a prospective student is missing a few of the pre-requisites from the masters degree, but otherwise qualifies for the program, that student may complete the missing pre-requisite courses early in their doctoral program, thus not extending the time required to complete the degree. Some newly admitted students elect to complete the pre-requisites in the summer before starting doctoral studies. Students who are deficient in several pre-requisites are likely to extend their programs if they do not begin to enroll in the pre-requisites at the beginning of doctoral studies.

PROGRAM COSTS

Table - Program Costs

The program strives to provide graduate assistantships or tuition grants for all first and second year students who request funding. After that period of time, students may be eligible for additional assistantships if positions exist in our program. In the 2013-2014 academic year, all students beyond the second year who requested assistance received some funding. Assistantships are given for one year and students must reapply on an annual basis. The Co-Directors of Training organize student applications for assistantships, and make placement decisions in coordination with the Directors of the various student service areas. Students who are awarded a graduate assistantship must be enrolled as full-time doctoral students with at least 7-9 semester hours of credit each semester.
A variety of 10 hour tuition grants (tuition remission for 7 - 9 semester hours per semester) and 20 hour graduate assistantships (tuition remission for 8 semester hours plus stipend for each semester) have been made available to students including research, teaching and professional service (i.e., University Counseling Center, University Disability Services, and University Tutoring Center). For 2013-2014 the minimum stipend for 10 hour assistantships is $5,900.00 per academic year. A 20 hour assistanship has a minimun stipend of $11,800.00 per academic year. The specific times that students work are negotiated with the supervising faculty member so as not to conflict with any courses students may be taking. Typically, graduate research assistants are involved in research activities such as library searches, literature reviews, data collection, data entry and analysis, manuscript preparation, report writing, often resulting in opportunities to collaborate on presentations and publications. In addition, assistants may be asked to help with classes faculty are teaching by grading exams, keeping records, helping with library research for classes, and other tasks.

INTERNSHIPS

Internship Placement Table 1

Internship Placement — Table 2

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