Unless applicants request otherwise, the contact information of applicants who are rejected from psychology graduate programs may be shared with other, similar graduate programs at SIUE. This gives applicants who are not admitted to a psychology program the chance to learn about other SIUE graduate programs for which they are eligible and may be a good fit. For example, an applicant who is rejected from the Industrial/Organizational psychology program may be recommended to the admissions committee of the Instructional Technology program (a program which can involve some coursework in corporate training).
If you object to being contacted by another SIUE graduate program after the psychology department has made a decision about your application, please notify the Graduate Secretary via email. A request to keep your contact information within the psychology department will not affect your chances of admission to a psychology graduate program.
Program Course Prerequisites
All graduate programs in our department have these prerequisites*:
Introductory Psychology
Statistics (behaviorial science statistics)
Research Methods/Experimental Psychology (a course about data collection, analysis, and reporting)
Psychological Tests and Measurements
* If you are missing one or two prerequisites for any program, you may still be provisionally accepted. Provisional acceptance comes with the understanding that you must take the prerequisites you are missing at SIUE during the summer term preceding the start of your program and earn a high grade. Details of any such arrangement would be described in the admission letter.
Additional prerequisites for each program are as follows:
CLINICAL-ADULT PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM
Theories of Personality
Abnormal Psychology
Physiological Psychology
CLINICAL CHILD AND SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM
Child Psychology or Adolescent Psychology
Abnormal Psychology
INDUSTRIAL/ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM
Introduction to Industrial/Organizational Psychology
GRE Requirements
All applicants are required to take the General GRE. The GRE Psychology Subject Test is optional. Information regarding the GRE can be obtained from http://www.gre.org.
Deadline
New students are admitted exclusively in the fall semester. All application materials are due February 1. (However, applications for graduate school fellowships and awards are often due January 15th.)
Early application is encouraged. The first review of completed folders for admission may take place in January. Applications will be reviewed until all available positions in each program are filled.
The fall semester generally begins the last week in August with an orientation for all new graduate students occurring the week prior.
Psychology Graduate Assistantships
Departmental graduate assistantships are available to some psychology students who are admitted. (Assistantships available to psychology students, but administered by other departments at SIUE, are posted here. Some advice about obtaining assistantships outside the department appears in the psychology discussion forum.) Students who receive assistantships get a stipend and tuition remission. The application for assistantships administered by the Department of Psychology is available in the numbered list at the top of this page.
Graduate School Financial Aid
The Graduate School offers a variety of awards to support graduate students. Please consider applying for a Competitive Graduate Award or Graduate Scholar Award. Other awards, such as Research Grants for Graduate Students and Travel Grants, are available to current SIUE graduate students. Additional information regarding graduate student financial aid can be found on the Financial Aid web site.
International Students
We welcome applications from international students. Please refer to the web site of International Student Services for helpful information.
Housing
You can visit the University Housing web site at http://www.siue.edu/housing/ for information about on-campus and off-campus housing.
Additional Information
The Registrar's web site has information regarding tuition, class schedules and course descriptions.
The Department of Psychology adheres to the University's Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action policy in its admission procedures and strongly values diversity.
If you need any additional information or clarification beyond the information provided here, please contact our part-time Graduate Secretary by email or call (618) 650-2203.
