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​​Choosing a graduate school is a big decision. You’re ambitious and dedicated. So are we.

Designed to fit your busy schedule

DePaul graduate programs are designed to fit into your schedule. We offer courses during the day, at night and online. Our faculty are among the best, and our connections with the city of Chicago can’t be beat. 

* Asterisk indicates online degree completion is available. ^ Caret indicates program may be paired with any undergraduate major for a combined bachelor's/master's degree option.

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Distinctive Features of the Doctoral Program

• A high-quality program with selective admission and a limited enrollment
• A community of people with diverse professional experiences and deeply ​ felt concerns about educational problems
• A program that builds connections between practical experience and theory
• A full-time faculty with expertise in both research and theory and successful practice
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College of Science and Health > Academics > Psychology > Graduate Programs > Psychological Science (MA/PhD)

Psychological Science (MA/PhD)

Using science to understand the human experience.

DePaul’s Psychological Science MA/PhD program is a highly competitive program that trains students in the theories and methodologies that define the core scientific pillars of psychology: social, developmental, cognitive and neuroscience.

With an emphasis on critical and integrative thinking, our students will understand the psychological foundations of human thought, emotions, motivation and behavior while conducting innovative research on diverse topics within psychology. You will have the opportunity to develop research and statistical skills both inside the laboratory and out in the world developing scientific solutions to real-world problems. Our program will equip you with the skills and knowledge necessary for a career as a researcher, educator, and/or consultant in a variety of fields.

Get a closer look at what it’s like to be in the program. See our Program Highlights , Frequently Asked Questions , Program Faculty and Grad Student Bios.

For international students: this is a STEM-designated program , which can qualify you to extend your post-graduation stay in the United States.

Gain extensive research experience

Research is an integral part of your training and begins during your first year of the program. Prepare for work in a wide variety of scientific, academic and applied settings by gaining practical experience in centers and labs directed by Psychological Science faculty and by teaching your own course.

Application Deadlines

The deadline for fall admission is December 15.

Submit an online applications, GRE scores, transcripts, course history form, letters of recommendation and personal statement.

Required Courses

For the MA portion, you’ll take 12 courses and complete a thesis. For the PhD portion, you’ll take seven courses and complete a dissertation.

of Psychological Science graduates were employed, continuing their education or pursuing other goals within six months of graduation.

The reported median salary for Psychological Science alumni was $59,040.

Make contributions to the field with faculty mentors

Associate Professor Yan Li directs DePaul’s Social Development Lab, which addresses research questions about social development from middle childhood to adolescence. The goal of her team’s research is to understand the developmental processes and contribute to the promotion of well adjustment in children and adolescents.

“The Psychological Science program at DePaul gave me the independence and guidance I needed to successfully start my research career.”

Mark (MA ’10, PhD ’12)

Associate professor, department of social psychology, tilburg university, netherlands, alumni network.

You’ll join a network of psychology alumni working in corporate and nonprofit organizations as well as faculty and administrators at colleges across the country. You’ll also be part of a community of more than 201,000 DePaul alumni, the majority of whom live in the Chicago area.

Scholarships

Admitted Psychological Science MA/PhD students are funded with tuition waivers and research/teaching positions. Learn more about the financial aid and scholarship opportunities available to you.

Contact Information

For more information about applying, contact The Office of Graduate Admission for DePaul’s College of Science and Health at (773) 325-7315 or [email protected] .

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The graduate program in Philosophy offers students the opportunity to study the history of philosophy and contemporary philosophy and to work with some of the leading scholars in:

• Contemporary Continental Thought
• German Idealism 
• Social and Political Theory 
• History of Philosophy and Ethics
• Feminist Philosophy
• Psychoanalytic Thought
• Latin American Philosophy

The program provides students with a rigorous course of graduate seminars in these and other areas of philosophy, as well as regular faculty consultation and guidance at every stage of the program. 

The department offers the PhD in philosophy. Though students may enter the program with a BA or an MA, they all follow the same MA/PhD path.

Program Structure

Most graduate courses are taught in a series of streams organized each year under unifying titles, such as German Idealism, Ethics, Society and Politics, or Contemporary French Philosophy. These are all research courses, with no distinction being made between MA and PhD course levels, and a student does not technically have to follow the stream from beginning to end. 

In their first two years in the program, students serve as Teaching Assistants. In their third through sixth year in the program, students serve as Teaching Fellows. In this role, students are expected to teach up to a maximum of four courses per academic year.

After the first year of course work is complete, students are allowed to enroll for up to three independent studies of any kind toward their degree. These courses can be any combination of language courses, independent studies in the department or in other departments at DePaul, or courses in other doctoral programs at other local universities. 

Program Length

Students take a total of 28 courses (or 112 credit hours), usually over the course of four years, whether they are entering with a BA or an MA. They then complete the degree by writing and defending a dissertation, normally in their fourth through sixth years in the program.

Program Highlights

The department offers courses, seminars, mini-courses, directed research, and colloquia to stimulate students’ investigation of various philosophies and philosophical problems. 

Each student is required to pass two competency exams in languages pertinent to their research. In support of this requirement, the department holds informal reading groups (in French, German, Greek, and Latin) that meet regularly and emphasize reading philosophical texts in their original languages. In addition, in the spring of the second year, every student is permitted to travel abroad in order to engage in serious and immersed language study in another country and develop academic connections and, oftentimes, contact a faculty host for an eventual dissertation research and writing fellowship, such as the Chateaubriand, DAAD, or Fulbright. Finally, we also sponsor an exclusive exchange program with the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris every year, where we send a second-year student from our program to study there, while we host an ENS student here in Chicago.

Because the majority of our graduates will go on to jobs in academia, we offer a carefully designed teaching practicum to support our students as they transition from serving as a Teaching Assistant, in their first two years in the program, to being a Teaching Fellow, who designs and offers their own undergraduate classes, in their third through sixth years.  

Finally, there is a student-organized forum, the Frings Lecture Series, in which students present papers and discuss their work with their fellow graduate students and the graduate students also organize and host an annual national conference for graduate students each year. 

Program Participants

The program is designed primarily for:

• Students on their way to careers in academia

Certificate Options

The Philosophy PhD may also be supplemented with a number of graduate certificates:

• Business Ethics
• Women’s and Gender Studies
• Teaching and Learning Certificate

Learning Outcomes

​Students will be able to:

• Critically discuss philosophical issues (via well-grounded arguments) and questions from the perspectives of multiple methods, traditions, and historical contexts.
• Evaluate philosophical issues, questions, and problems critically and analytically.
• Write an articulate and well-ordered essay presenting philosophical positions in a way that addresses philosophical issues and questions.
• Formulate and evaluate their own understanding of a diverse range of philosophical problems, in both writing and discussion.
• Integrate a critical understanding of central philosophical ideas from the history of philosophy, broadly construed to include more than the Western tradition.
• Read and integrate into their research relevant primary and secondary texts from the history of philosophy in their original language.
• Produce a substantial piece of research (thesis or dissertation) that makes an original contribution to the field of philosophy and/or exhibits a comprehensive grasp of the relevant scholarship on a given question, text, or figure.

Degree Requirements

A minimum of 112 quarter hours of graduate level course work (28 courses) is required for the PhD. This includes 104 quarter hours of course work (26 courses), 4 quarter hours of PHL 697 (Graduate Teaching Practicum), and 4 quarter hours of PHL 699 (Dissertation Research).

Of the 112 quarter hours (28 courses) required for the PhD, 32 quarter hours (8 courses) must be taken in accordance with the following distribution requirements:

• Four History of Western Philosophy Courses
• Two in Ancient or Medieval: 8 quarter hours
• Two in Modern or Nineteenth Century: 8 quarter hours
• Two Contemporary European Philosophy Courses: 8 quarter hours
• Two Normative Philosophy Courses: 8 quarter hours

Course Distribution List

History of western philosophy - ancient or medieval, history of western philosophy - modern or nineteenth century, contemporary european philosophy, normative philosophy, additional requirements, annual reviews.

The Graduate Affairs Committee conducts annual formal reviews of each student’s progress toward the doctoral degree. The purpose of the review session is to discuss the student’s experience in the program thus far, address any questions or concerns that they might have, and assess how well they are meeting the expectations relevant to their year in the program. 

As part of the review process, students are required to submit a self-evaluation of their progress in the program, teaching evaluations (when serving as a Teaching Fellow) and, until all their course work is completed (typically, through their fourth year in the program), students are also required to submit two file papers for review. These papers are read by a second member of the faculty who assesses whether the papers meet relevant standards of graduate level work and thus indicate appropriate progress in the program for each student.

Students deemed not to be making satisfactory progress may be placed on probation or, where the circumstances in the judgment of the Graduate Affairs Committee warrant, the student may be required to leave the doctoral program.

Foreign Languages Requirement

The Philosophy Department places a very high priority on working with texts in original languages, rather than translations. For doctoral students, competence in two languages of research is thus required. Typically, these are Greek, Latin, French, or German. Competence in other languages may be used to fulfill the language requirements if it is deemed appropriate to the research undertaken by the student. In the latter case, prior to beginning preparation to pass a language requirement (by either of the two paths outlined below), the student must submit a short paragraph to the Director of Graduate Studies, to be reviewed by the Graduate Affairs Committee, outlining why the language in question will be important to the student’s future research.

Each student must complete the requirement for one language before scheduling a Dissertation Proposal Defense, and they must complete the requirement for a second language before scheduling a Dissertation Defense.

There are two ways in which students can complete the Foreign Languages requirement:

• Student may pass a departmentally administered Language Competency Exam, which are offered just before the start of every quarter. This usually involves asking the student to translate a selection from a philosophical text in the original language.
• Students may, alternatively, complete a certain number of classes in the Modern Languages Department, maintaining a B+ average each quarter. For ancient languages, students must take through the first year. For modern languages, students must take through year two.

Dissertation

Students must form a dissertation committee and submit and defend a dissertation proposal before that committee. Each student must then submit a dissertation and successfully defend it before their dissertation committee. 

The dissertation is a thesis, approximately 200-275 pages (60,000-85,500 words) in length, including scholarly apparatus. The precise topic, structure, and length of the dissertation is to be determined in consultation with the dissertation Director and the other members of the dissertation committee. 

Optional Certificates

Graduate certificate in bioethics.

The Graduate Certificate in Bioethics is an option for doctoral candidates in Philosophy who want (a) to cultivate their ability to engage in critical analysis of bioethical issues, and (b) to train to teach bioethics, biomedical ethics, or medical ethics to a variety of different kinds of students.

The Certificate requirements are as follows:

Course Requirements:

A minimum of 16 quarter hours including:

Training/Teaching Requirements

• Students must participate in the Biomedical Ethics Training Program or serve as a Teaching Assistant for PHL 229 BIOMEDICAL ETHICS  with a tenured or tenure-line faculty member. 
• Upon completion of the training program or assistantship, students must teach at least two sections of Biomedical Ethics ( PHL 229 ). 

Applicants apply for the Certificate by sending a letter of intent to the Director of Graduate Studies. Applicants agree to make the above required courses part of their program of study for the Ph.D and must maintain a B average in all Certificate courses.

Graduate Certificate in Business Ethics

The Graduate Certificate in Business Ethics is an option for doctoral students in Philosophy who want to gain a competency in business ethics, qualifying them to teach undergraduate and MBA courses in that subject. This Certificate does not require a dissertation in applied ethics. Rather it is designed to give students, regardless of their area of specialization, a strong background in business ethics so that they will be competent and competitive in the academic market, as well as comfortable teaching business ethics both at DePaul and in their academic careers.  

Other Requirements

• Students will be required to teach two Business Ethics courses (this could be in the Department of Philosophy, the Religious Studies Department or in a Management Department at DePaul or in other area universities.) Given that many PhD students in Philosophy are required to teach, this is not always an additional teaching requirement. 
• Attend and participate in at least one professional conference or complete an internship in applied ethics. In terms of Conferences, students will have to present a paper at the annual meeting of the Society for Business Ethics or the annual Vincentian Conference on Business Ethics. (Expenses will be covered by the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics.) A publishable paper would be the optimal goal. In terms of internships, such opportunities will have to be directly related to Business Ethics, Sustainability or Societal Justice. This will be approved by the Certificate Chair in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies.

Applicants can apply by sending a letter of intent to the Certificate Chair and the Director of Graduate Studies. Applicants must have at least a B average and will agree to make the above required courses as part of their program of study for the PhD.​​​

Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies

The Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Certificate Program at DePaul University is offered by the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and it is available to students in the doctoral program in the Department of Philosophy.

The Program’s requirements are:

• WGS 400 FEMINIST THEORIES
• Three additional graduate-level elective courses approved by Women’s and Gender Studies. The student should petition for approval for courses from the WGS Director of Graduate Studies.

It is highly recommended that students take the foundational course, WGS 400, prior to the other three required WGS electives. The elective courses may be taken from the Women’s and Gender Studies offerings and/or from courses in other departments and programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences that have been approved by the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, but all three elective courses cannot be from one department.

Student Handbook

Probation, dismissal, and readmission.

The Graduate Affairs Committee conducts annual formal reviews of each student’s progress toward the doctoral degree. Students deemed not to be making satisfactory progress may be placed on probation or, where the circumstances in the judgment of the Graduate Affairs Committee warrant, the student may be required to leave the doctoral program. In these cases, students may petition the Graduate Affairs Committee for readmission to the program.

Residency Requirement

Three consecutive quarters of full-time residence, i.e., registration for eight credit hours each quarter.

Time Limitations

Students are expected to defend their dissertation proposals and become ABD by the end of their fourth year, but by no later than the end of their sixth year. Students are expected to submit and successfully defend their dissertations by the end of their sixth year, but by no later than the end of their tenth year after entering the program.

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Ph.D. in Computer Science

Ph.d. in computer and information sciences.

The Ph.D. program in Computer and Information Sciences offers an opportunity for exceptional students to pursue substantial research in the computer sciences and related areas. The program is highly selective and is purposefully kept small so that each Ph.D. student can receive substantial advising and mentoring from CDM faculty. To earn a Ph.D. degree, a student must demonstrate breadth of knowledge in at least two research areas and significant depth in a chosen dissertation area. In addition, the student must conceive, write and defend a Ph.D. dissertation representing a significant and original contribution to current academic research as demonstrated by a public dissertation defense and publication in established peer-reviewed academic conferences and/or journals.

In keeping with the CDM philosophy of blending academic and professional pursuits, full-time employed students will be considered for admission as part-time doctoral students. However, these applicants must have sufficiently flexible work schedules to allow them to attend required meetings and academic seminars that occur during daytime working hours throughout their degree program. In addition, many working students will find that they must take a leave of absence or cut back to part-time employment for some time period during the research and candidacy phases of the degree program.

The Ph.D. Admissions Committee determines which applicants will be admitted to the program. Because CDM admits only a limited number of students to the Ph.D. program, meeting the admission standards does not guarantee acceptance.

It is recommended that applications and all supporting documents be submitted as early as possible, but not later than:

• January 15 for Autumn Quarter
• October 1 for Winter Quarter

* At the discretion of the PhD Committee, applications for the PhD program may continue to be reviewed on a rolling basis up until one month prior to the start of a quarter. Students who apply for admission other than at the officially designated deadlines will be notified by the Office of Graduate Admission at the time of their application whether or not the PhD Committee is currently reviewing applications. If the PhD Committee is not reviewing additional applicants at the time of application, the applicant’s application will be kept on file until the next time the PhD Committee reviews applications. Applicants who wish to withdraw their application should do so by notifying the Office of Graduate Admission.

Admission Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and Master’s degree awarded from a regionally accredited institution. The master’s degree must be in computer science, information systems, or a related field.
• Personal statement describing your accomplishments, goals and interests
• Official GRE score report of test taken within five years of the application deadline.
• Three letters of recommendation
• PhD Addendum form
• Show definite promise for completing the program
• Test of English Proficiency for international students. We require at least a 92 on the internet-based TOEFL, a 580 on the paper-based TOEFL or a 6.5 on the IELTS. International applicants should visit the international admission webpage for further details.

Steps to Apply

• Complete an online application and submit application fee ($25 application fee for domestic applicants, $75 for international applicants).
• Submit official transcripts from all colleges and universities attended. One must show the conferral of a Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution and one must show a conferral of a Master’s degree in computer science, information systems or related field.
• U.S. college and university transcripts should be mailed to the address below.
• DePaul alumni/undergraduate students applying for graduate admission must also submit a DePaul transcript. You can request a free electronic transcript on the Student Records webpage.
• Individuals with international transcripts need to have a course by course transcript evaluation done by one of the three evaluation companies that DePaul University accepts. For more information about this process please visit the Transcript Evaluation webpage .
• Submit all necessary materials listed above.

All submitted application materials will become part of your application file and cannot be returned. Please retain your own copies.

Materials (international transcripts excluded) not submitted through the online application may be submitted by mail, fax or email at the following:

CDM Graduate Admission Office 1 E. Jackson Blvd., Suite 8500 Chicago IL 60604 [email protected]

Credentials must be complete prior to an admission review. When important pieces of information such as transcripts are missing, the College is compelled by University regulations to withdraw the application from consideration for admission. It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure that all materials are submitted on time.

Please note that GRE and TOEFL scores MUST be official copies sent directly to CDM Graduate Admission Office by ETS. Photocopies CANNOT be accepted.

• The Institution Code for the GRE is 1165
• The Department Code for the GRE is 0402
• The Institution Code for the TOEFL is 1165

The Ph.D. Admissions Committee determines which applicants will be admitted to the program. Because the School admits only a limited number of students to the Ph.D. program, meeting the admission standards does not guarantee acceptance.

Students employed outside of the University can be admitted as part-time doctoral students. Students who can devote themselves full time to their doctoral studies can be admitted as full-time doctoral students.

The College has a limited number of scholarships available to fund full-time PhD students. Only full-time students will be considered for substantial financial aid stipends.

Conditional Admission

Students without a master’s degree in computer science or a related field may be considered for conditional admission to the doctoral program. These students must have an exceptional undergraduate record. A conditionally admitted student will be required to complete a doctoral prerequisite phase consisting of a set of courses determined to be appropriate for the student by the Ph.D. committee. These courses will include the core courses from the Master’s of Science in Computer Science program. Upon completion of the prerequisite phase, the Ph.D. committee will conduct an evaluation of the student's progress. Assuming such progress is satisfactory, the student will then be formally admitted into the doctoral program. Note: It is not the policy of the School to award a master’s degree to a student enrolled in the Ph.D. program.

We do not offer conditional admission for students whose English proficiency scores are below the minimum.

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