THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE The Ph.D. degree in Psychology signifies completion of a course of study designed to prepare students for careers in academic psychology. It includes grounding in general psychology and in research techniques . In addition to the core requirements shared with the Psy. D. program, including an internship, the Ph.D. degree requires a research emphasis culminating in successful comple tion of an original research project and one year of supervised clinical in ternship in an approved setting. For students without previous graduate study , the Ph.D. program requires approximately five years of full-time study . Only a limited number of research-oriented students will be admitted to the Ph .D. program each year.
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