Student Support and Costs:- Counseling Psychology

Counseling Psychology

STUDENT SUPPORT AND 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.