Apply for Graduate Admission
Follow the Graduate School Application Checklist to complete your graduate study in Psychology application.
Additional Application Materials
The Graduate School Application Checklist includes a helpful reminder to check if any additional application materials are required by your program area. When applying for graduate study in Psychology at Wichita State University you must submit the following additional items:
Transcripts
Official Transcripts from all universities you have attended
GRE Scores
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- GRE is not required for the Clinical and Community Psychology Programs
- GRE is required for the Human Factors Psychology Program
Letters of Recommendation
Three letters of recommendation
CV
Please provide a CV with your application
Personal Essay
Submit a 2鈥�3 page statement that addresses your past experiences, reasons for applying to Wichita State, and future ambitions.
Important Note
Instructions for personal statements differ per program. Please look below for the specific questions for the programs.
Clinical Questions
- Please list life, work and research experiences relevant to your application, and describe the nature of those experiences.
- What do you hope to achieve during your graduate education?
- What kind of work in psychology would you like to be doing seven or eight years from now? Detailed information concerning specific applied and research interests would be helpful.
- With which faculty member would you initially wish to work and why? If you have no preferences at this time, also let us know.
- Provide any other information that you believe would further support your application.
Community Questions
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What previous life, work, and/or research experiences have led you to apply to a doctoral program?
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What, in particular, makes you interested in Community Psychology?
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What, in particular, makes you interested in WIchita State's doctoral program?
- What are your research interests?
- What are your careers goals for after you have completed this degree?
- Which faculty member are you interested in working with and why? If you have no preferences at this time, also let us know.
- Provide any other information that you believe would further support your application.
Human Factors Questions
- Please list life, work and research experiences relevant to your application, and describe the nature of those experiences.
- Please briefly describe your writing and quantitative skills. Example documentation should be submitted as supplementary material. This may include papers submitted for course work such as literature review papers, research methods and analyses papers or proposals, publications and/or R-code scripts from analysis projects where you played a primary role.
- What do you hope to achieve during your graduate education?
- What kind of work in psychology would you like to be doing seven or eight years from now? Detailed information concerning specific applied and research interests would be helpful.
- With which faculty member would you initially wish to work and why? If you have no preferences at this time, also let us know.
- Provide any other information that you believe would further support your application.
Writing Sample
If applying to the Clinical or Human Factors program, please provide a writing sample, such as a published article, thesis, or class project.
Applicants to the Community program do not need to submit an additional writing sample.
Supplemental Information
You may also include any supplemental information about your honors, scholarships, employment, volunteer work, as well as any articles, presentations and/or projects if you feel this would strengthen your application.