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Admission Requirements PhD in Psychology

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS 

All applicants  

  • Completed and signed Application for Admission, including:
    • Religious Autobiography and additional required essays.    
    • Application fee: $75 non-refundable application fee. 
    • Application deadline:  February 15, 2013 
      
  • Submission of official transcripts of all post-secondary schools attended, including a transcript showing a bachelor's degree earned from an accredited institution. A psychology grade point average of 3.7 or higher is considered competitive.  Non-psychology majors must take one statistics course (in the behavioral sciences) and five basic psychology courses as prerequisites. Applicants are encouraged to complete all prerequisite courses with grades posted prior to applying.

     
  • Four references: one pastoral and three academic. Applicants who completed their bachelor's degree 10 or more years ago may submit up to two professional, psychology-related, references that substitute for academic references.  

     
  • An official Graduate Record Examination (GRE) score (verbal, quantitative, and analytical writing) from a test taken not longer than 5 years previous to the date of application. A verbal score of 155 (530 old scale) and quantitative score of 152 (660 on old scale) or higher are minimum standards. The GRE Psychology Subject Test (PGRE) score is required, but may be submitted to the School of Psychology after the application deadline (e.g. in May). That is, in some cases admission may be made pending receiving PGRE scores.   

     
  • You are encouraged to submit a formal vita or resumé along with your application. Please refer here for guidance. Your vita or resumé can be submitted to the Admissions Office as an e-mail attachment to admissions@fuller.edu or by mail to the following address:  

Office of Admissions
Fuller Theological Seminary
135 N. Oakland Ave.
Pasadena, CA  91182
USA

 

Non-Native English speakers

International applicants 

  • If you are a Permanent Resident of the United States, you must submit a copy of your Permanent Resident Card (Green Card) to the Office of Admissions.   
  • If you are neither a citizen nor a Permanent Resident of the United States, please click here. 

     

Psychology interviews are offered to selected applicants as part of the decision process and are held no later than April 30, 2013. An invitation to interview is not a guarantee of acceptance to the program. 

 

APPLICATION DEADLINES  

Final application and file completion deadline:  February 15 

  • Notification date:  Applicants will be notified no later than April 30, 2013.  
  • Applicants should take the GRE by January 10 at the latest in order for the score to be reported to Fuller by the February 15 deadline  

 

Please allow ample time to submit a completed application (including all references, transcripts, GRETOEFL, and/or IELTS Academic Format score[s], and supplementary materials) by the February 15 deadline.  Applicants should take the GRE by January 15 at the latest in order for the score to be reported to Fuller by the February 15 deadline.   

  

TUITION AND FEES 

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