Master of Arts Degree (M.A.)

We currently educate approximately 50 graduate students per year in our Master of Arts Degree Program. Students engage in 48 units of rigorous graduate coursework focused on theory, research, and applications of the science of psychology.   In addition to developing a wide breath of knowledge in psychology, each student selects a focused plan of study resulting in one of the following co-concentrations:

• Applied Social Psychology & Evaluation
• Organizational Behavior & Evaluation
• Positive Organizational Psychology & Evaluation
• Applied Developmental Psychology & Evaluation
• Positive Developmental Psychology & Evaluation
• Applied Cognitive Psychology & Evaluation
• Health Behavior Research & Evaluation
• Human Resource Development & Evaluation
• Public Policy & Evaluation (transdisciplinary degree with the School of Politics and Economics)

We have a high graduation rate and the majority of our students complete the Applied Psychology M.A. program in two years. Graduates of our Applied Psychology M.A. Program report experiencing much success in a wide range of rewarding and lucrative careers.  For example, many of our graduates hold major leadership, research, consulting, or evaluation positions in large private corporations, not-for-profit organizations, government, health care, public health, mental health agencies, community settings, research institutes and think tanks, and at colleges and major universities across the globe.

Some graduates decide to pursue a Ph.D. degree after competing the M.A. program.  Students who do well in our Applied Psychology M.A. Program are highly sought after by some of the most competitive Ph.D. programs in the world.  Numerous graduates of the M.A. Program have been admitted to one of our Ph.D. programs at Claremont Graduate University.  These students are allowed to transfer all 48 units toward the requirements for a Ph.D. degree at CGU.

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Financial Aid

All Applied Psychology M.A. students who request financial aid receive fellowships.  In addition, significant increases in faculty research funding have resulted in a substantial increase in the number of stipends and the amount of tuition remission support we are able to provide.  M.A. students are regularly hired for a range of paid research and staff positions.  The CGU Office of Student Financing assists students with finding work study positions, private scholarships, and government loans.  At the time a student is offered admission to our Applied Psychology M.A. Program, faculty contact students to discuss the financial aid that is available to support their graduate work.

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Faculty

Stewart I. Donaldson Professor & Dean of SBOS	Kathy Pezdek Professor & Associate Dean of SBOS	Christina A. Christie Co-Director of M.A. Programs & Professor	Rebecca M. Eddy Co-Director of M.A. Programs & Research Faculty
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Professor	Michael Hogg Professor	Hallie Preskill Professor	Michael Scriven Distinguished Research Professor
William D. Crano Professor	Dale E. Berger Professor	Allen M. Omoto Professor	Michelle C. Bligh Professor
Jeanne Nakamura Professor	Eusebio Alvaro Research Faculty	Tiffany Berry Research Faculty	Jason Siegel Research Faculty

For More Information

Faculty and advanced CGU graduate students would be happy to provide you with more information about graduate training in applied psychology and related career opportunities.  To make a phone appointment or to arrange a visit to campus, please call or e-mail Kim Perkins, Career Advisor, at (909) 621-8084 or career.advisor@cgu.edu.

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