PsyD Requirements

 

MA Counseling Ministries Requirements

 

Admission Requirements

 



 

Admission Requirements

MA in Clinical Psychology

 

  1. Application deadline—March 1.
  2. Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution.
  3. Minimum GPA 3.0.
  4. Eighteen credit hours of prerequisites (see below).
  5. Complete application for admission.
    1. GRE General Test scores (Tips for taking GRE, New GRE question types).
      1. International students: submit TOEFL scores instead of GRE scores.
        1. TOEFL requirements.

        2. International students who fall under the TOEFL exclusion must take the GRE test instead.

    2. Official transcripts from all previous colleges or universities attended.
    3. Four recommendations.
      1. Academic.
      2. Pastoral (or other Christian leader).
      3. Professional (employer).
      4. Mental Health Professional (practicing therapist or psychology professor with doctorate).
    4. Essays.
    5. Resume.
    6. Signed Statement of Faith and Community Covenant.
    7. Application processing fee: $30, non-refundable.

 

Prerequisites (18 hrs.)

All prerequisites must be taken from a psychology department—not an education or sociology department. Exception: the research-oriented courses listed under 4 do not have to be taken from a psychology department.

 

  1. General Psychology
  2. Abnormal Psychology or Psychopathology
  3. Personality Psychology or Theories of Psychotherapy
  4. One course from the following.
    1. Experimental Design
    2. Quantitative Methods
    3. Research Methods
    4. Statistics

 5 & 6. Two courses from the following (traditional "scientific" subdisciplines of psychology).

    1. Cognition
    2. Developmental Psychology
    3. Learning
    4. Physiological Psychology
    5. Sensation/Perception
    6. Social Psychology