The Psychology Graduate Program offers general graduate training in psychology leading to a 36-credit Master of Arts in Psychology degree. It provides students with the opportunity to select courses in a variety of fields including social, cognitive, developmental, organizational, and experimental psychology. The degree may serve as preparation for those training for entry into a doctoral program or as additional training for those who plan to enter or are already involved in applied areas of psychology with an emphasis on research. For example, some of our alumnae and alumni now work as research analysts, research associates, teachers, and online course editors (see our alumnae/i's web page for more information on career opportunities).
The acceptance rate into doctoral programs for students who graduated in the last five years (2008-2013) is 80%. Students were accepted into a variety of programs (cognitive psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, quantitative psychology, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, biomedical anthropology) at University of California Riverside, University of Florida, University of Kansas, CUNY, University of Buffalo, Binghamton University, New Mexico State University, Suffolk University, Kansas State University, and Clark University.
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Course work is complemented by numerous opportunities to engage in research under the supervision of a faculty member. Our faculty are interested in a variety of research areas:
- Affect, work, and cognition
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Cognitive disabilities
- Cultural psychology
- Developmental psychopathology
- Embodied and embedded cognition
- Environmental/conservation psychology
- Evolutionary psychology
- Family conflict
- Gender and leadership
- Health psychology
- Intelligence
- Language and bilingualism
- Mating
- Memory and cognition
- Political psychology
- Sex differences/similarities research
- Social relationships in infants
- Students' goals, learning approaches, and achievement
- Work psychology
You can learn more about our faculty's research interests here.
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Psychology Graduate Program
JFT 316
SUNY New Paltz
600 Hawk Drive
New Paltz, NY 12561-2440
(845) 257-3467
email: gradpsych@newpaltz.edu
