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Psychology Graduate Application

Important Application Dates

  • Dec. 1 – Clinical completed application materials due
  • Jan. 15 – Community completed application materials due
  • Jan. 15 – Human Factors completed application materials due
  • April 1 – Admissions and assistantship decisions communicated to applicants
  • April 15 – Deadline for student acceptances of offers tendered by the Department of Psychology

Apply for Graduate Admission

Follow the Graduate School Application Checklist to complete your graduate study in Psychology application.

Additional Application Materials

The Graduate School Application Checklist includes a helpful reminder to check if any additional application materials are required by your program area. When applying for graduate study in Psychology at Wichita State University you must submit the following additional items:

Transcripts

Official Transcripts from all universities you have attended

GRE Scores

  • GRE is not required for the Clinical, Community or Human Factors Psychology Program

Letters of Recommendation

Three letters of recommendation

CV

Please provide a CV with your application

Personal Essay

Submit a 2–3 page statement that addresses your past experiences, reasons for applying to Wichita State, and future ambitions.

Important Note

Instructions for personal statements differ per program. Please look below for the specific questions for the programs.

Clinical Applicants - Personal Essay Questions

Clinical Questions
  1. Please list life, work and research experiences relevant to your application, and describe the nature of those experiences.
  2. What do you hope to achieve during your graduate education?
  3. What kind of work in psychology would you like to be doing seven or eight years from now? Detailed information concerning specific applied and research interests would be helpful.
  4. With which faculty member would you initially wish to work and why? If you have no preferences at this time, also let us know.
  5. Provide any other information that you believe would further support your application.

Community Applicants - Personal Essay Questions

Community Questions

  1. What previous life, work, and/or research experiences have led you to apply to a doctoral program?

  2. What, in particular, makes you interested in Community Psychology?

  3. What, in particular, makes you interested in WIchita State's doctoral program?

  4. What are your research interests?
  5. What are your careers goals for after you have completed this degree?
  6. Which faculty member are you interested in working with and why? If you have no preferences at this time, also let us know.
  7. Provide any other information that you believe would further support your application.

Human Factors Applicants - Personal Essay Questions

Human Factors Questions
  1. Please list life, work and research experiences relevant to your application, and describe the nature of those experiences.
  2. Please briefly describe your writing and quantitative skills. Example documentation should be submitted as supplementary material. This may include papers submitted for course work such as literature review papers, research methods and analyses papers or proposals, publications and/or R-code scripts from analysis projects where you played a primary role.
  3. What do you hope to achieve during your graduate education?
  4. What kind of work in psychology would you like to be doing seven or eight years from now? Detailed information concerning specific applied and research interests would be helpful.
  5. With which faculty member would you initially wish to work and why? If you have no preferences at this time, also let us know.
  6. Provide any other information that you believe would further support your application.

Writing Sample

If applying to the Clinical or Human Factors program, please provide a writing sample, such as a published article, thesis, or class project.

Applicants to the Community program do not need to submit an additional writing sample.

Supplemental Information

You may also include any supplemental information about your honors, scholarships, employment, volunteer work, as well as any articles, presentations and/or projects if you feel this would strengthen your application.

Questions

For questions regarding the online application process please contact the Psychology Department office by phone at 316-978-3170, or email Dr. Rhonda Lewis at rhonda.lewis@wichita.edu, or Kevin Duffy at kevin.duffy@wichita.edu.

You can also contact the Graduate School office by phone at 316-978-3095, or by email at wsugradschool@wichita.edu.

Scholarships, Fellowships and Grants

We strive to provide students with financial support at the highest level possible. Financial assistance may come in the form of scholarships, a teaching or research assistantship, or College Work Study support.

Students receiving work study support often perform the same duties as teaching or research assistants. At the time of completing this application you are strongly urged to complete the standard FAFSA financial aid form.

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