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 2003-2012

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

$1062.00 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:

• Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers

 Internship Acceptance Rates

For 2011-2012 GSPP students were placed in the following internship sites:

Attrition Data

Licensure Scores

EPPP average score for 2000-2006 = 151

• Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards