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School description:, why do students from over 150 countries come to mcgill.

• Our reputation is built on strong academics. McGill’s 21 faculties and professional schools offer programs in some 300 areas of study.
• Our outstanding faculty bring the latest research directly to their students.
• Our Montreal setting has it all. Lively and cosmopolitan, Montreal is the second largest French-speaking city in the world. Although McGill is an English university, over 20% of our students are francophone.
• The name McGill sparks recognition worldwide and our graduates are prominent in every field of endeavour.
• Our active alumni network provides graduates with contacts around the globe.

Our international reputation for teaching and research attracts the best and the brightest students and faculty from around the world. Choosing McGill is an excellent step in ensuring a successful future for yourself!   Department History

Undergraduate Program Description

Students who have not completed the recommended background will be required to register for these courses during the first year at McGill. In this case, the background courses will be taken as corequisites, along with all other U1 requirements. Students will receive elective credit for any background courses which must be completed at McGill.

** Students must obtain a minimum grade of 75% in the CEGEP math course in order to be exempt from PSYC 204 at McGill. Students who have received a grade lower than 75% will be required to register for PSYC 204 in the first year at McGill. These students will receive elective credit for PSYC 204. Back to Top Recommended Background for Students Entering the Bachelor of Arts Programs

Students entering the Bachelor of Arts programs (major, honours and faculty program) in Psychology are expected to have completed the following courses in college or during the freshman year of university:

Arts OASIS (Office of Advising and Student Information Services): The Arts OASIS website provides Arts students with general academic information and advice about issues such as faculty and degree requirements, registration issues, inter-faculty transfer, study away, academic standing, or graduation. In addition to advising students about such issues, either by appointment or on a daily drop-in basis, the Arts OASIS Faculty advisers offer a number of information sessions every term, such as degree planning workshops, study away workshops, and freshman information sessions. For  more information, please click  here . Back to Top Information Meeting for New Students

All new students entering the Psychology undergraduate program are required to attend an Information Meeting prior to registration.

Newly admitted students from CEGEPs should attend the information session on Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 in room N2/2 in the Stewart Biology Building. The one for students in the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Arts and Science will be at 10:00am and the one for students in the Faculty of Science will be at 11:30am. If you are unable to attend this session, please attend the identical one offered in August.

Students who have been accepted into a Bachelor of Science program in Psychology must attend the meeting on Wednesday, August 28th, 2013 at 11:30am in room N2/2 in the Stewart Biology Building.

Students accepted into a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Arts and Science program and who intend to pursue a Major Concentration in Psychology must attend the meeting on Wednesday, August 28th, 2013 at 10:00am in room N2/2 in the Stewart Biology Building.

At this meeting, the Academic Adviser will explain the requirements of the Department’s programs. Incoming students will have an opportunity to ask questions and receive advice on how to plan their courses. After this meeting students will make appointments for individual advising sessions.

For students entering the Psychology program in the January are encouraged to call the academic advisor, in December to clarify their course selections.

Entering students must bring their Letter of Acceptance, a copy of their collegial or university transcript(s), and the McGill Undergraduate Calendar.

MINERVA Form Approval

All students, new and returning, must fill out a MINERVA form listing their course selections for the whole year before they can officially register with the University. In order to have the MINERVA form approved by an advisor, students must bring their (1) Acceptance Letter and (2) a copy of their college or university grades to be left with the student’s advisor. Returning students must bring a copy of their Report of Standing. Back to Top Important Information Regarding Elective Courses for Students in the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science Selected courses in other faculties (e.g. management, education, engineering, etc.) may also be chosen consistent with the regulations of the student’s home faculty (either Arts or Science). For further information regarding courses outside the faculties of Arts and Science, please consult the  Student Affairs Office  and select the link for your faculty (Arts or Science). Failure to do so may result in you not receiving credit for a course. The MINERVA registration system is not programmed to prevent students from registering for courses which have not been approved for credit.  Therefore, do not assume that you will receive credit for a course simply because “MINERVA let you register”. MINERVA is a machine, it does not have that kind of decision making capability .  Furthermore, do not ask your friends if you can take a course for credit… no matter how smart your friends are, this is not their area of responsibility, and they may be mistaken. Do not assume that because they took it, so can you. The list of approved courses may change, or people’s circumstances may be different. Do not assume that because you see other psychology students in the class, then it must be approved. How do you know that they checked the list? Finally, do not ask the professor of the course, since this is a rule of the faculty of Science or Arts, and it is not the professor’s responsibility to be aware of whether or not the course is approved for you. He or she simply may not know.  The only way to ensure that you will receive credit for a course in a faculty outside of Arts or Science is to check the web page indicated above. Back to Top Grade Requirements

Students must obtain a minimum grade of C in all courses required by their program. A grade lower than C may be made up by taking another equivalent course, by successfully writing a supplemental examination (if there is one), or by repeating the course. Honours students are normally expected to obtain a grade of B or better in their Honours courses. Back to Top Undergraduate Course Lists List A and List B

The study of psychology covers many fields. To develop a breadth of understanding in psychology, students are expected to obtain knowledge beyond the introductory level in two or more areas of psychology. To ensure this requirement is met, Psychology courses are divided into two lists. List A covers the areas of behavioural neuroscience, cognition and quantitative methods. List B covers social, health and developmental psychology.

List A (Behavioural Neuroscience, Cognition and Quantitative Methods) PSYC 301 Learning 302 The Psychology of Pain 308 Behavioural Neuroscience 1 310 Intelligence 311 Human Cognition and the Brain 315 Computational Psychology 317 Genes and Behaviour 318 Behavioural Neuroscience 2 329 Introduction to Auditory Cognition 340 The Psychology of Language 341 Psychology of Bilingualism 342 Hormones and Behaviour 352 Cognitive Psychology Laboratory 353 Laboratory in Human Perception 403 Modern Psychology in Historical Perspective 406 Psychological Tests 410 Special Topics in Neuropsychology 413 Cognitive Development 427 Sensorimotor Behavior 451 Human Factors Research and Techniques 470 Memory and Brain 502 Psychoneuroendocrinology 506 Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention 510 Statistical Analysis of Tests 522 Neurochemistry and Behaviour 526 Advances in Visual Perception 529 Music Cognition 531 Structural Equation Models 532 Cognitive Science 536 Correlational Techniques 537 Advanced Seminar in Psychology of Language 541 Multilevel Modeling 545 Topics in Language Acquisition 561 Methods: Developmental Psycholinguistics 562 Measurement of Psych. Processes 

List B (Social, Health and Developmental Psychology) PSYC 304 Child Development 316 Psychology of Deafness 331 Inter-Group Relations 332 Introduction to Personality 333 Personality and Social Psychology 337 Intro: Abnormal Psychology 1 338 Intro: Abnormal Psychology 2 343 Language Acquisition in Children 351 Research Methods in Social Psychology 408 Principles of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy 412 Deviations in Child Development 414 Social Development 416 Topics in Child Development 429 Health Psychology 436 Human Sexuality and its Problems 471 Human Motivation 473 Social Cognition and the Self 474 Interpersonal Relationships 491 Advanced Study in Behavioural Disorder (6 credits) 507 Emotions, Stress and Illness 509 Diverse Clinical Populations: Poverty and Psychopathology 511 Infant Competence 512 Advanced Personality Seminar 528 Vulnerability to depression 530 Applied Topics in Deafness 533 International Health Psychology 535 Advanced Topics in Social Psychology

Unclassified Courses PSYC 395 Psychology Research Project 1 450 Research Project and Seminar (9 credits) 488 Special Topics Seminar 492 Seminar in Special Topics 1 493 Seminar in Special Topics 2 494 Psychology Research Project (9 credits) 495 Psychology Research Project 2 499 Reading Project Back to Top Graduate Study

The B.A. or B.Sc. program in Psychology does not provide professional training. The undergraduate degree is intended to give the student a general academic background. Those who are interested in practicing psychology professionally in Quebec must obtain a graduate degree, preferably the Ph.D. Most graduate schools require not only a record of high achievement, but also adequate performance on entrance examinations such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and/or the Miller Analogies Test (MAT), as well as letters of recommendation. Before entering their final year, students are advised to take these tests. Experience with psychological research will enhance your chances of being accepted into many graduate programs. Major students should take either PSYC 450D1/450D2, PSYC 395, PSYC 494D1/D2 or PSYC 495. Students in the honours program will complete at least one research projects in U2 and/or U3. However, it is important to remember that admission to graduate studies is highly competitive and that no degree guarantees entry to advanced study. You could improve your chances by applying to a variety of universities and programs. Bear in mind that the admissions process varies from University to University. At McGill, for example, each staff member examine applications in his or her area of interest and may propose one or more candidates. Potential candidates are then discussed by the entire staff and a final decision regarding acceptances is made by the department as a whole.

Admission to the Graduate Program in Psychology (PhD degree) at McGill is highly competitive. Approximately 20 new students have been accepted out of 230 or so applicants each year for the past few years. Students who are completing, or have completed undergraduate courses in the McGill Department of Psychology may submit applications in the general competition for admission. Before applying to McGill, however, students should consider two advantages in pursuing a graduate degree elsewhere: 1) the likelihood of being exposed to new approaches to your field; 2) the self-development that comes from succeeding in a new academic environment.

Handouts prepared by the Department of Psychology concerning applications to graduate school are available in the Department of Psychology Undergraduate Office, N7/9, Stewart Biological Sciences Building. These contain detailed information about applying to graduate schools, as well as information about potential problems. They are designed to aid students who are serious about pursuing graduate studies in psychology. Further information about advanced study in psychology may be obtained from the Directories of the American Psychological Association or the Canadian Psychological Association. These are usually on sale at the University Bookstore and, along with other useful material, may also be borrowed from the Advising Office. In addition, meetings designed to help students plan for graduate study in psychology are held in the Department each fall. Ask in the Advising Office for the dates. Interested students are encouraged to consult the following world wide web pages:  Canadian Psychological Association  ,  American Psychology Association , The Psychology Web   ,  Psychology Department  ,  McGill University .

Government Agencies

Note: To be eligible for the following graduate fellowships, students must be registered full-time (24 credits). To be eligible for Psychology undergraduate prizes and scholarships, students must be registered for 27 credits or more. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)  Post Graduate Scholarships for full support are awarded to Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada. These awards are mainly for students in experimental psychology, but some areas of clinical psychology are also funded. The deadline in departments for applications is the end of September of the academic year before the one for which support is sought, however if the agency’s official deadline is different from what is given here, the department will conform to the official date.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)  SSHRC offers doctoral fellowships to Canadian citizens or permanent residents who are already enrolled in or have completed at least 1 year of graduate studies. They support students in social psychology, clinical psychology, and psycholinguistics. The deadline in departments for applications is the end of September of the academic year before the one for which support is sought, however if the agency’s official deadline is different from what is given here, the department will conform to the official date.

Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)  MRC studentships are awarded to individuals who have completed 12 months of a Masters, PhD, or other professional degree health-related fields, including some areas of psychology. Applications are submitted by the student directly to MRC by October 1st.

Provincial Government Scholarships (FCAR-FRSQ) Most provincial governments in Canada provide postgraduate scholarships for full support to current residents of their province. Most of these awards are tenable anywhere. The deadline is usually sometime before the end of September of the academic year before the one for which support is sought, if the agency’s official deadline is different from what is given here, the department will conform to the official date. 

Graduate Program Description

When completing the online application form and you are applying to the clinical program, select PhD-T.

When completing the online application form and you are applying to the experimental program, select Masters of Arts or Masters of Science. Should you have completed or will complete a Master’s degree, select PhD-T.

McGill University is located in downtown Montreal, a cosmopolitan city with diverse linguistic and cultural groups. McGill is an English-language institution with a long and distinguished history in Quebec and Canada. The Department of Psychology is one of the oldest and best known in North America. The department enjoys extensive professional ties with other institutions in Montreal, including English and French universities, schools, hospitals, and social service centres.

The Department of Psychology offers two full-time, research-intensive graduate program tracks, ultimately leading to a PhD: a program in  Experimental Psychology and a program in  Clinical Psychology .

• In the  Experimental Program , students wishing to pursue a PhD are either admitted into a Master’s program (MA or MSc) or, if their GPA permits, directly into the PhD program.
• If students are admitted into a Master’s program they either (a) complete the Master’s degree and then enter the PhD program or (b) fast-track into the PhD program after undergoing a formal evaluation and admission process.
• In the  Clinical Program  both research and clinical training are combined. Students are typically admitted directly from a Bachelor’s degree to the PhD program. The  Clinical Program  is fully accredited by the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) and the American Psychological Association (APA) and is a member of the Academy of Clinical Science.

The following six  research areas  are well represented in the department:

(a) cognition-language-perception (b) behavioral neuroscience (c) developmental psychology (d) social-personality psychology (e) health psychology (f) quantitative-modeling psychology

The department does not offer programs in industrial, managerial, or consumer psychology, or in counseling or educational psychology. Please note that the Faculty of Management offers a PhD in administration with a concentration in organizational behavior. Additionally, the Faculty of Education offers graduate degrees in counseling and educational psychology.

There are approximately 110 graduate students in the department, and 10-20 new students begin study each year. The department only accepts students who are planning to pursue their PhD degree with full time study. Applications for part-time study or for the completion of only a Master’s degree are not considered. All new students enter the department in September. In addition to Canadian students, the department maintains a rich tradition of training international students from all parts of the world including the United States, the British Commonwealth, Europe, and Asia..

The primary objective of the graduate program is to provide an environment in which students develop skills and expertise that will aid them during a professional teaching, research, and possibly clinical career. In the experimental program, undergraduate-type courses and examinations are kept to a minimum. Success in the program depends upon a student’s ability to self manage, organize and use available time and resources provided by the department. The department places the primary importance on conceiving and conducting research in the student’s area of interest. In the clinical program there is a substantial course load during the first two years, after which the emphasis shifts to research and professional training.

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Behavioural Neuroscience

Behavioral Neuroscience, traditionally called physiological psychology, has long been a strength of the McGill Psychology Department, and remains well represented today at McGill and other institutions in Montreal. The Department benefits from associations and collaborations with laboratories and colleagues in Pharmacology, Physiology, and Psychiatry, as well as the Montreal Neurological Institute, the Montreal General Hospital, the Royal Victoria Hospital (McGill Vision Centre) and the Douglas Hospital Research Institute. Within the Department, research on the neural basis of behavior and cognition focuses on several areas, including visual psychophysics and physiology, learning and memory, reward and reinforcement, and mechanisms of pain. Ongoing vision research, aimed at understanding how we know by seeing, uses psychophysical experiments to determine how the visual system parses light patterns into pattern vision. Molecular genetic techniques are used to determine how different processing streams in the visual system are constructed. Ongoing research into the neural basis of learning and memory uses behavioral and neuropsychological studies to determine the kinds of information people and animals use to remember, and pharmacological and physiological methods to analyze how different brain structures contribute to different types of learning and memory on systems and cellular levels. Research on the neural mechanisms of reward and reinforcement uses neurochemical and neuroanatomical techniques to understand why people and animals approach and avoid cues. Closely related to this, studies on mechanisms of pain are the main focus of investigation in several laboratories in the department.

The following faculty conduct research in behavioral neuroscience:

Developmental Psychology

The goal of developmental psychology is threefold: (a) to describe the course of psychological development in normal children and in children with various problems, (b) to understand how physical, psychological, and social factors influence this development, and (c) to understand psychological functioning in adults by examining its developmental origins. These three goals are well represented by the child development group in the Department. The Department also has long standing, close links with a major children's hospital and with a centre for research on learning disabilities. The main areas covered are perceptual, cognitive, language, and social development, with most members of the group involved in more than one area.

The following faculty conduct research in developmental psychology:

Social and Personality Psychology

Social psychology has a long and distinguished history at McGill. Pioneering work here concerned the social and cognitive aspects of bilingualism, including seminal research on bilingual education. The initial interest in language and culture in Quebec led to broader concerns with cultural diversity among different societal groups in North America and abroad - concerns such as multiculturalism, ethnic relations, prejudice, social justice, and responses of disadvantaged groups toward perceived inequality.

Following this tradition, social psychology at McGill is distinctive in its focus on theoretical issues that address important social issues. It uniquely focuses on inter-group relations, interpersonal relations, and the bridges that connect the two. Field research is conducted with visible minority immigrants in Montreal, ethnic groups in Detroit and Miami, native peoples in the High Arctic, young women coping with unplanned pregnancies, and family members caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's. And even when questions are addressed in more controlled laboratory settings, the emphasis is on creating highly effective social situations. For example, we study inter-group and interpersonal relations by creating laboratory situations that challenge and engage powerful inter-group and interpersonal processes. Other research has focused on the interaction between personality and social psychological variables as related to affect, adjustment, health, and motivation in a variety of contexts including organizations and intimate relationships. Of particular interest are measurement issues, situational specificity, gender differences, self-regulatory styles, intrinsic motivation, and responses of individuals to environmental changes and other stressful life events. Finally, developmental research is underway on prejudice, ethnic identity, and social relationships in family and school settings.

The following faculty conduct research in Social and Personality Psychology :

Health Psychology

Health psychology is based on the assumption that health and illness can best be understood by examining biological, psychological, and social factors in an integrative fashion. Health psychologists come from a variety of areas of psychology including clinical, developmental, behavioral neuroscience, social-personality, and neuropsychology. Because the boundaries between these areas have historically been loose at McGill, the Department is well positioned to promote the emergent area of health psychology. Current research areas include health promotion with indigent groups, psychosocial effects of chronic illness, cardiovascular psychophysiology, pain, psychoendocrinology, psychopharmacology, alcohol, eating disorders, and coping with stressful life events.

The following faculty conduct research in health psychology:

Quantitative Psychology and Modeling

Our quantitative research emphasizes the development and testing of mathematical, statistical, and computational models and the development and use of appropriate data-analytic techniques. Profs. Ramsay and Takane explore models involving the mathematical concept of distance, contribute to the literature on multidimensional scaling, and develop a number of publicly available computer programs. Prof. Takane also applies distance-based modeling to several types of discrete data. Prof. Ramsay investigates new procedures for analyzing mental testing data and collaborates with Prof. Ostry and other members of the staff on the analysis of biophysical data arising from the study of motor systems. Prof. Ho investigates new procedures for analysis of neuroimaging data (e.g., fMRI) and neuroscience data (e.g., molecular mapping) so to understand the brain structure and dynamics. He also works on mathematical models for decision making (e.g. approval voting), statistical methods for testing mathematical axioms and analysis of social network data. Prof. Oshima-Takane works on computer models of word learning and has been collaborating with Profs. Takane and Shultz to develop statistical techniques for analyzing network internal structures. Prof. Shultz works on connectionist models of reasoning, memory, cognitive consistency, and cognitive development. Finally, students in quantitative psychology have access to the excellent facilities described in the section titled Cognition, Language, and Perception.

The following faculty conduct research in quantitative psychology and modeling:

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McGill University Summary

McGill University is a public institution that was founded in 1821 and is located in Quebec, Canada. The university has two campuses: the downtown campus in Montreal and the Macdonald campus in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue. The two campuses are approximately 20 miles apart. The primary language of instruction is English, although in a recent year around 20 percent of university students said French was their mother tongue. In fact, around half of the population of Montreal speaks French as a first language. Around one-fourth of the student body is international, with students hailing from more than 150 countries. University housing is available for undergraduate and graduate students on both campuses. The university is made up of 10 faculties and schools – agricultural and environmental sciences, arts, dentistry, education, engineering, law, management, medicine, music and science – that offer around 300 programs of study. Around two-thirds of the university's students study at the undergraduate level. Tuition costs are higher for international students, and McGill's academic calendar is based on a semester system. The university is affiliated with multiple teaching hospitals, and its medical school is the oldest in Canada. Research at the university takes place at more than 40 McGill research centers – such as the McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, the Centre on Population Dynamics and the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy – and at other affiliated institutes and hospitals. The creation of the first artificial blood cell is among the research achievements associated with the university.

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McGill University Rankings

McGill University is ranked #54 in Best Global Universities. Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence. Read more about how we rank schools .

• # 3 in Best Global Universities in Canada

McGill University Subject Rankings

• # 59 in Agricultural Sciences
• # 36 in Arts and Humanities  (tie)
• # 56 in Biology and Biochemistry  (tie)
• # 161 in Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology  (tie)
• # 46 in Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems
• # 61 in Cell Biology  (tie)
• # 209 in Chemical Engineering  (tie)
• # 126 in Chemistry
• # 104 in Civil Engineering
• # 41 in Clinical Medicine
• # 111 in Computer Science  (tie)
• # 202 in Condensed Matter Physics  (tie)
• # 147 in Economics and Business
• # 99 in Education and Educational Research
• # 275 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering  (tie)
• # 59 in Endocrinology and Metabolism  (tie)
• # 146 in Engineering  (tie)
• # 39 in Environment/Ecology
• # 64 in Food Science and Technology
• # 95 in Gastroenterology and Hepatology
• # 96 in Geosciences
• # 52 in Immunology  (tie)
• # 32 in Infectious Diseases
• # 153 in Materials Science
• # 130 in Mathematics  (tie)
• # 87 in Mechanical Engineering
• # 95 in Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences  (tie)
• # 59 in Microbiology
• # 32 in Molecular Biology and Genetics  (tie)
• # 212 in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology  (tie)
• # 14 in Neuroscience and Behavior
• # 55 in Oncology
• # 205 in Optics
• # 155 in Pharmacology and Toxicology  (tie)
• # 342 in Physical Chemistry  (tie)
• # 134 in Physics
• # 154 in Plant and Animal Science  (tie)
• # 179 in Polymer Science
• # 44 in Psychiatry/Psychology
• # 40 in Public, Environmental and Occupational Health
• # 34 in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging
• # 38 in Social Sciences and Public Health  (tie)
• # 80 in Space Science
• # 59 in Surgery
• # 42 in Water Resources

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Psychology is a diverse discipline that attempts to understand the basis of behaviour, thoughts and emotions. Psychology at UBC was introduced as a single course in 1915 and was initially offered by the Department of Philosophy. Over the years, the number of courses and instructors grew until we officially became the Department of Psychology in 1958.

Information on research areas offered in the department, as well as admissions-related information, can be found on the department website . Read the department program website carefully before contacting the department with specific questions that are not addressed on the website.

For specific program requirements, please refer to the departmental program website

What makes the program unique?

UBC’s Department of Psychology is a top ranked research department in Canada and in the world. Our 58 faculty members and 130 full-time graduate students and postdoctoral fellows conduct research across the spectrum of psychology, representing seven sub-disciplinary specializations: Behavioural Neuroscience, Clinical, Cognitive Science, Developmental, Health, Quantitative Methods, and Social/Personality.

The strength of our graduate programs lies in the highly productive research faculty, well-organized programs of study, extensive opportunities for student-faculty interaction, and rich offering of research specializations. Our faculty are well known for their research expertise in health, happiness, language acquisition, gambling, child development, gender roles, environmental behaviour, neuroscience, and many other areas of psychology. Our research programs are well funded by major national granting agencies, and our faculty are committed to research excellence and interdisciplinary collaborations within UBC’s Faculties of Medicine, Science and Arts, the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability and many other institutions around the world.

The opportunity to specialize in health psychology as well as the research-intensive and mentorship-based training that characterize both the MA and PhD programs was what attracted me to the UBC psychology department.

Talia Morstead

Quick Facts

Program Enquiries

Admission information & requirements, program instructions.

Please refer to the department website for all admissions-related information.

1) Check Eligibility

Minimum academic requirements.

The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies establishes the minimum admission requirements common to all applicants, usually a minimum overall average in the B+ range (76% at UBC). The graduate program that you are applying to may have additional requirements. Please review the specific requirements for applicants with credentials from institutions in:

• Canada or the United States
• International countries other than the United States

Each program may set higher academic minimum requirements. Please review the program website carefully to understand the program requirements. Meeting the minimum requirements does not guarantee admission as it is a competitive process.

English Language Test

Applicants from a university outside Canada in which English is not the primary language of instruction must provide results of an English language proficiency examination as part of their application. Tests must have been taken within the last 24 months at the time of submission of your application.

Minimum requirements for the two most common English language proficiency tests to apply to this program are listed below:

TOEFL: Test of English as a Foreign Language - internet-based

Overall score requirement : 90

IELTS: International English Language Testing System

Overall score requirement : 6.5

Other Test Scores

Some programs require additional test scores such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or the Graduate Management Test (GMAT). The requirements for this program are:

The GRE is required by some applicants. Please check the program website.

Prior degree, course and other requirements

Prior degree requirements.

A thesis-based MA or MSc in Psychology is required for applicants applying for the PhD program.  Applicants with only a BA/BSc degree must aply for the MA program as they are ineligible for the PhD program.

Other Requirements

GRE requirements vary depending on the area of research and/or intended research supervisor. Please visit the respective Research Stream page on the department website for area-specific GRE requirements.

2) Meet Deadlines

3) prepare application, transcripts.

All applicants have to submit transcripts from all past post-secondary study. Document submission requirements depend on whether your institution of study is within Canada or outside of Canada.

Letters of Reference

A minimum of three references are required for application to graduate programs at UBC. References should be requested from individuals who are prepared to provide a report on your academic ability and qualifications.

Statement of Interest

Many programs require a statement of interest , sometimes called a "statement of intent", "description of research interests" or something similar.

Supervision

Students in research-based programs usually require a faculty member to function as their thesis supervisor. Please follow the instructions provided by each program whether applicants should contact faculty members.

Instructions regarding thesis supervisor contact for Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD)

Applicants will not be admitted without identifying a faculty member as their intended supervisor.  Admissions decisions are made by prospective research supervisors; applicants are encouraged to reach out to them directly for further inquiries after reviewing the information on the department's website.

Criminal Record Check

Citizenship verification.

Permanent Residents of Canada must provide a clear photocopy of both sides of the Permanent Resident card.

4) Apply Online

All applicants must complete an online application form and pay the application fee to be considered for admission to UBC.

Research Information

Research focus.

We offer research-intensive graduate studies in seven sub-disciplinary specializations: Behavioural Neuroscience, Clinical, Cognitive Science, Developmental, Health, Quantitative Methods, and Social/Personality.  Please refer to the department's Research Streams page for more information.

Tuition & Financial Support

Financial support.

Applicants to UBC have access to a variety of funding options, including merit-based (i.e. based on your academic performance) and need-based (i.e. based on your financial situation) opportunities.

Program Funding Packages

From September 2024 all full-time students in UBC-Vancouver PhD programs will be provided with a funding package of at least $24,000 for each of the first four years of their PhD. The funding package may consist of any combination of internal or external awards, teaching-related work, research assistantships, and graduate academic assistantships. Please note that many graduate programs provide funding packages that are substantially greater than $24,000 per year. Please refer to the department's Funding page  for additional information on funding opportunities.

Average Funding

• 32 students received Teaching Assistantships. Average TA funding based on 32 students was $10,912.
• 37 students received Research Assistantships. Average RA funding based on 37 students was $7,725.
• 18 students received Academic Assistantships. Average AA funding based on 18 students was $2,366.
• 51 students received internal awards. Average internal award funding based on 51 students was $16,504.
• 22 students received external awards. Average external award funding based on 22 students was $32,136.

Scholarships & awards (merit-based funding)

All applicants are encouraged to review the awards listing to identify potential opportunities to fund their graduate education. The database lists merit-based scholarships and awards and allows for filtering by various criteria, such as domestic vs. international or degree level.

Graduate Research Assistantships (GRA)

Many professors are able to provide Research Assistantships (GRA) from their research grants to support full-time graduate students studying under their supervision. The duties constitute part of the student's graduate degree requirements. A Graduate Research Assistantship is considered a form of fellowship for a period of graduate study and is therefore not covered by a collective agreement. Stipends vary widely, and are dependent on the field of study and the type of research grant from which the assistantship is being funded.

Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTA)

Graduate programs may have Teaching Assistantships available for registered full-time graduate students. Full teaching assistantships involve 12 hours work per week in preparation, lecturing, or laboratory instruction although many graduate programs offer partial TA appointments at less than 12 hours per week. Teaching assistantship rates are set by collective bargaining between the University and the Teaching Assistants' Union .

Graduate Academic Assistantships (GAA)

Academic Assistantships are employment opportunities to perform work that is relevant to the university or to an individual faculty member, but not to support the student’s graduate research and thesis. Wages are considered regular earnings and when paid monthly, include vacation pay.

Financial aid (need-based funding)

Canadian and US applicants may qualify for governmental loans to finance their studies. Please review eligibility and types of loans .

All students may be able to access private sector or bank loans.

Foreign government scholarships

Many foreign governments provide support to their citizens in pursuing education abroad. International applicants should check the various governmental resources in their home country, such as the Department of Education, for available scholarships.

Working while studying

The possibility to pursue work to supplement income may depend on the demands the program has on students. It should be carefully weighed if work leads to prolonged program durations or whether work placements can be meaningfully embedded into a program.

International students enrolled as full-time students with a valid study permit can work on campus for unlimited hours and work off-campus for no more than 20 hours a week.

A good starting point to explore student jobs is the UBC Work Learn program or a Co-Op placement .

Tax credits and RRSP withdrawals

Students with taxable income in Canada may be able to claim federal or provincial tax credits.

Canadian residents with RRSP accounts may be able to use the Lifelong Learning Plan (LLP) which allows students to withdraw amounts from their registered retirement savings plan (RRSPs) to finance full-time training or education for themselves or their partner.

Please review Filing taxes in Canada on the student services website for more information.

Cost Estimator

Applicants have access to the cost estimator to develop a financial plan that takes into account various income sources and expenses.

Career Outcomes

112 students graduated between 2005 and 2013: 1 is in a non-salaried situation; for 5 we have no data (based on research conducted between Feb-May 2016). For the remaining 106 graduates:

Sample Employers in Higher Education

Sample employers outside higher education, sample job titles outside higher education, phd career outcome survey, career options.

The PhD in Psychology is designed to prepare students for employment in academic or private sector settings. Recent graduates have taken positions as tenure track faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, research scientists, practicing clinical psychologists, biostatisticians, and public policy quantitative analysts.

Alumni on Success

Zak Witkower

Job Title Postdoctoral Researcher

Employer University of Toronto

Kristina Uban

Job Title Post Doctoral Researcher

Employer Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Julie Belanger

Job Title Director, Research and Evaluation

Employer Education Partnerships Group

Kirsten Dalrymple

Job Title Research Associate

Employer University of Minnesota

Enrolment, Duration & Other Stats

These statistics show data for the Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD). Data are separated for each degree program combination. You may view data for other degree options in the respective program profile.

ENROLMENT DATA

Completion rates & times, upcoming doctoral exams, monday, 27 may 2024 - 12:30pm - room 200, thursday, 6 june 2024 - 3:00pm - room 203.

• Research Supervisors

Advice and insights from UBC Faculty on reaching out to supervisors

These videos contain some general advice from faculty across UBC on finding and reaching out to a supervisor. They are not program specific.

This list shows faculty members with full supervisory privileges who are affiliated with this program. It is not a comprehensive list of all potential supervisors as faculty from other programs or faculty members without full supervisory privileges can request approvals to supervise graduate students in this program.

• Alden, Lynn (Cognitive processes in the anxiety disorders, Social Anxiety Disorder, adult-onset Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, cognitive-behavior therapy)
• Baron, Andrew (cognitive development, infancy, childhood, adolescence, racism, race, stereotypes, cooperation, bias, innateness, science education, multiculturalism, gender, ethnicity, neuromarketing, attitudes, preferences, psychology )
• Biesanz, Jeremy (personality, Personality, interpersonal perception, accuracy, personality coherence, quantitative methods)
• Birch, Susan (Social perspective taking, social learning, social cognition, imitation, nonverbal behavior, confidence, communication, decision-making, impression formation, child development My primary area of expertise is the study of children and adults’ social perspective taking abilities (i.e., their abilities to reason about other peoples’ mental states–their intentions, knowledge, and beliefs) and how their abilities to take another person’s perspective impacts how they form impressions of others, learn from others, communicate with others, and informs a range of socials. Of particular interest is a) how children make inferences about what is credible information to learn (e.g., how they decide whether someone is a credible source of information based on how confident that person seems) and b) how a widespread bias in perspective taking referred to as ‘the curse of knowledge bias’ (a difficulty reasoning about a more naive perspective as the result of being biased by one’s current knowledge) can impair communication (both written and in person) and decision-making across a range of fields (politics, law, education, economics, medicine, etc.)., Development of language, learning, and social understanding in infants and children)
• Chen, Frances (Health psychology; social connection; social support; stress; coping; conflict and negotiation; hormones; Neuroendocrinology)
• Christoff, Kalina (brain, cognitive neuroscience, psychology, prefronal cortex, fMRI, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, executive functions, problem solving, reasoning, thinking, mind-wandering, attention, consciousness, real-time fMRI, trauma and PTSD, Cognitive and neural basis of human thought, reasoning and problem solving)
• Clark, Luke (Gambling, Problem Gambling, Addiction, Decision-Making, Reward, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms involved in gambling behaviour and disordered gambling)
• Dawson, Samantha (Psychology and cognitive sciences; Interventions for sexual dysfunction; Sexual function and dysfunction in individuals and couples)
• DeLongis, Anita (Psychology and cognitive sciences; social determinants of health; chronic illness; coping; couples; families; health; Health Psychology; marriage; social support; stress)
• Dunn, Elizabeth (Happiness, money and spending decisions, self-knowledge)
• Emberson, Lauren (Learning, Perception (audition, vision, crossmodal or multisensory), Language development, Face/object perception, Impacts of premature birth, Neural connecitivty, fNIRS, Neonatal and Infant development , Early adversity / Risk and resilience , Increasing diversity and representation in the neurosciences , Naturalistic neuroimaging recordings)
• Enns, James (Behavioural neuroscience of reward and motivation; attention; action kinematics; social perception; perceptual development)
• Floresco, Stanley Bogdan (Neural circuits subserving learning and executive functions, behavioural and electrophysiological analyses of limbic-cortical-striatal interactions involved in decision making and behavioural flexibility, animal models of schizophrenia and drug addiction)
• Goetz, Friedrich (Psychology, social and behavorial aspects; Geographical psychology; Causes and consequences of regional personality differences; Mobility and migration; Wanderlust; Courage; Entrepreneurship; Personality development; open science)
• Hall, David Geoffrey (Lexical and conceptual development, semantic development, language acquisition)
• Hamlin, Kiley (Psychology and cognitive sciences; Cognitive development; Moral Judgement and Duty or Obligation Morals; Infant / Child Development; Foundations of Religious, Mystical, Mythical and Moral Thoughts; Infant moral cognition; infant social cognition)
• Handy, Todd (aging and cognition, aging and exercise, cognitive neuroscience, attention, migraine, fMRI, Cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, attention and its impairment in clinical populations, mind wandering, and real-world human behaviour)
• Heine, Steven (Culture and human nature in psychology, culture, how people strive to maintain a sense of meaning in their lives when they encounter anomalies which they are unable to make any sense of, how people understand essences and genetic foundations for human behavior )
• Hewitt, Paul (perfectionism, Therapy Perfectionism, personality vulnerability, depression, suicide in adults and children)
• Hoppmann, Christiane (Psychology and cognitive sciences; Aging Process; Social Aspects of Aging; stress; Health Promotion; social determinants of health; Health and well-being across the adult lifespan and into old age; individual differences in goals)
• Kerns, Connor (assessment and treatment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD); childhood anxiety and stress-related disorders; trauma-related disorders; Autism; Anxiety; Comorbidity)
• Kim, Eric (Health psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); psychological well-being; Purpose in life / Meaning in life; resilience; Optimism / Hope; Health Psychology; Social Epidemiology; Aging)
• Kingstone, Alan (Cognitive sciences; Brain mechanisms of human perception, attention, and behaviour in experimental & everyday situations)
• Klonsky, Elisha (Clinical psychology; Suicide (theory, motivations, transition from suicidal thoughts to attempts); emotion; personality.)
• Laurin, Kristin (Social psychology; Psychology of social class; Political psychology; Rationalization and system justification; Morality)

Doctoral Citations

Sample thesis submissions.

• Examining the relationship between children's theory of mind and social-emotional functioning
• When people do allyship : a typology of allyship action
• Cognitive and affective dimensions of inattention
• Actual and anticipated reactions to engaging with and dismissing political opponents : who and where they come from, and why they matter
• Mechanisms underlying the interface between number words and perceptual magnitudes
• Trust and social class : the complex relationship between explicit stereotypes (about dispositions and situations), implicit stereotypes, and trust
• Memory network of social anxiety
• A cognitive framework of nudge and sludge
• Reward sensitivity and emotionally biased cognition in depression
• Seeing mind in all : subjective panpsychism and moral psychology
• Prosocial behaviour as an antidote to social disconnection : exploring the links between prosocial behaviour, loneliness, and social contact in daily life
• Bidirectional associations between social media use and psychopathology
• Just not that interested? : drivers of the gender gap in systemizing and empathizing interest
• SES, inequality and me : the effects of subjective socioeconomic status and perceived economic inequality on self-centeredness
• How does it feel to be greedy? : the role of pride in avaricious acquisition

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• Master of Arts in Psychology (MA)

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Psychology covers most major areas of the discipline, including: behavioral neuroscience, clinical psychology, cognitive science, developmental psychology, health psychology, personality and social psychology, and quantitative methods.

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