Psychology PhD

Key facts:

• The major aim is not only to transmit existing knowledge, but to develop constructively critical attitudes and creative skills in psychologists who are dedicated to clinical psychology as a scientific profession, so that they will be able to make useful and novel contributions to the solution of problems arising in clinical settings.
• All functions of clinical psychology are stressed: assessment, treatment, consultation, supervision, and research.

Programme Structure

• The Clinical Program meets these goals by providing instruction in the five core areas of clinical psychology (biological, cognitive-affective, and social bases of behaviour, individual behaviour, and history and systems of psychology), statistical and research methods, and methods of assessment and intervention.
• Multicultural competence is targeted through inclusion as a topic within each course as well as an independent required course at the PhD level.
• The Clinical Program meets these goals also by providing in-depth practical experience in assessment and intervention, as well as by requiring directed thesis research, and by providing other collaborative research opportunities.
• We have been very successful in meeting our goals.
• Over the past five years, all of our students in clinical psychology have passed their required and elective core courses and their practicum courses.

Admission requirements

Academic requirements

• GRE (General Test): Required

English requirements

• TOEFL iBT: 88
• PTE Academic: 65
• IELTS: 7

General requirements

• Statement of Interest
• Resume
• Reference Letters
• Transcript Requirements
• TOEFL and IELTS Requirements
• GRE Requirement

Tuition Fees

• International: 5,792 AUD / year (≈ 5,772 CAD / year)
• Domestic: 5,792 AUD / year (≈ 5,772 CAD / year)

Living costs

Kingston, Canada: 1,018–1,621 AUD / month