Student Admissions, Outcomes, and Other Data
General Information
The PsyD program at the GSPP is accredited by the American Psychological Association (750 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242; 202-336-5979). The PsyD program has been continuously accredited since 1979.
The PsyD program at GSPP seeks well-qualified students who are a good fit for our practitioner-scholar program. We look for students who demonstrate an aptitude for clinical work and for applied scholarship. As such, we ask applicants to provide undergraduate transcripts, GRE scores, letters of recommendation, and two essays.
Faculty members review completed applications in December, January, and February each year. Qualified applicants are invited to an in-person interview at the end of February or beginning of March. Applicants are interviewed individually by a faculty member and current student, and in groups by two faculty members. The interview day also provides applicants the opportunity to learn more about the school, and to meet other students and faculty members. When it is not possible for the student to do an in-person interview, a phone interview may be substituted, but is not preferred.
Following the completion of interviews, the entire faculty meets to review the applicant pool. Potential students are selected based on the composite of their written materials, individual interviews, and group interviews. Potential students are notified about their admission status by April 1, and applicants who are offered admission are required to notify the program of their enrollment decision by April 15.
Average number of Applications 2005-2011
Average Yearly Applications: 378
Average Yearly Admission Offers: 76
Yearly Average Enrollment: 38
Average time to completion 2005-2012
PsyD students are able to complete all academic requirements in three (3) years of residency plus 1 year of internship. However, during the past 6 years 55.9% of students entering with a bachelor’s degree chose to take additional time (mean time to completion is 4.69 yrs.), and 38.2% of students entering with advanced standing chose to take additional time (mean time to completion is 4.57 years). The choice by students to take additional time primarily results from the desire to gain additional clinical experience in a particular field and from a need for additional time to finish doctoral paper.
Number of Applications 2012
Applications: 450
Admission Offers: 75
Enrollment: 40
Average GRE scores of 2012 PsyD Applicants:
New GRE Verbal: 155
New GRE Quantitative: 150
Old GRE Verbal: 523
Old GRE Quantitative: 609
Analytical Writing: 4.32
Average GRE scores of 2012 Incoming PsyD Students:
New GRE Verbal: 158
New GRE Quantitative: 153
Old GRE Verbal: 508
Old GRE Quantitative: 667
Analytical Writing: 4.39
Program Cost
$1104.00 per credit hour (quarter hours) - PsyD students are required to attend for the four (4) quarters of the academic year thus completing the 135 required credits and all academic requirements in three (3) years of residency. This is a financial advantage over other programs that require students to be in residence for four (4) years or more. The University of Denver charges GSPP students flat-rate tuition, charging students the same fee for 12-18 credits per quarter, so a student's overall tuition cost is determined by how students arrange their schedule.
Financial aid is available as loans, scholarships, fellowships, grants, work study and student work positions (TA, clinic assistantships.)
Generally, GSPP is able to offer 50% of the incoming class non-loan financial assistance.
Pre-Doctoral Internship Match
From 2000-2010 = 78.7% in APPIC match
The APPIC website lists GSPP's internship match rate from 2000-2010 as 78.7%, with 14.7% not matched and 6.7% withdrawn. These figures do not include the GSPP Exclusively Affiliated Internship Consortium which did not participate in the traditional match until 2009. The following table gives a more comprehensive picture of our internship matching rates:
Internship Acceptance Rates
For 2011-2012 GSPP students were placed in the following internship sites:
|
Site Name
|
Number of Students
|
APA/CPA Accredited
|
APPIC member
|
Paid
|
Full-Time
|
| Astor Services for Children and Families, NY | 1 | X | X |
X |
X |
| Brigham Young University, UT | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| Casa Pacifica, CA | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| Catholic University of America, Counseling Center, Washington, DC | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| Center for Behavioral Medicine, KS | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| Child and Family Guidance Center, CA | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| Children's Hospital, CO | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| Community Reach Center, CO | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| Denver Health Medical Center, CO | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| Friends Hospital, PA | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| Hamilton Health Sciences, Ontario, Canada | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| Hutchings Psychiatric Center, NY | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| Ohio State University, OH | 2 | X | X | X | X |
| Pacifica Clinics, CA | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| Portland VA Medical Center, OR | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| St. John's Child and Family Development Center, CA | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| University of Colorado, Boulder, CO | 2 | X | X | X | X |
| University of Denver GSPP Internship Consortium: Kaiser Permanente Colorado (2 interns); Mental Health Center of Denver (2 interns); Regis Counseling and Personal Development (1 intern); University of Denver Health and Counseling Center (4 interns) | 9 | X | X | X | X |
| University of Idaho, ID | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| University of Missouri, Columbia, MO | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| University of San Diego, CA | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| University of St. Thomas, MN | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| University of Southern California, CA | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| University of Southern California/Children's Hospital, CA | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| University of Texas Health Sciences, TX | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| Wichita Collaborative Psychology, KS | 1 | X | X | X | X |
| Wilford Hall Medical Center/Lackland Air Force Base, TX | 1 | X | X | X | X |
Attrition Data
Licensure Scores
EPPP average score for 2000-2006 = 151
