Counseling Psychology Ph.D. Program
Welcome! Thank you for your interest in our Counseling Psychology Ph.D. program. We are very excited about the work we are doing at UWM, and deeply committed to training multiculturally-competent counseling psychologists. We hope you'll consider joining us, and that these pages will help you find the information you are looking for about our program. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have.
Nadya A. Fouad Distinguished Professor and Training Director Department of Educational Psychology
PO Box 413
UW-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
414-229-6830 (phone)
414-229-4939 (fax)
nadya@uwm.edu PhD/APA Accredited* Specialization in Counseling Psychology
The Counseling Psychology program has three major goals:
- To train psychologists who specialize as counseling psychologists.
 - To train counseling psychologists who are multiculturally competent, and are prepared to work as psychologists within an urban context.
- To train psychological scientists who will contribute to and/or apply their scientific knowledge base using qualitative and/or quantitative methodologies.
Program Completion Time and Attrition Rate: The Counseling Psychology program has graduated 36 students since 1998. The mean time of completion for these 36 graduates is 5.7 years. There are currently 46 students in the program. Since 1999 there have been 5 students who have not completed the program once matriculated.
Internships:We have enjoyed great success in matching our students with approved internships. Since 1999, there have been 41 students who have gone through the matching process, and 38 of them received approved APA or APPIC placements. This is a match rate of 93%.
Student Support and Costs:Doctoral students are eligible to apply for research and project assistantships and fellowships through the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Educational Psychology Doctoral Program and the Graduate School. Students in the Counseling Psychology program are funded through a variety of mechanisms, including teaching and research assistantships in the School of Education, through faculty grants, and in other departments at UWM. For the 2007-2008 academic year of full-time study, the tuition for in state residents was $9,604.16. For out of state residents the tuition was $23,629.92. Mandatory student fees are $388.10 per semester.
**Stipends for Teaching or Research assistantships above a 33% time include tuition remission, which includes in-state or out-of-state rates. Stipends for an academic year (9 month) appointment for 2008-9 are $11,890 for 50% assistantships and $7,847 for 33% assistantships. During the 2008-9 academic year, the following table indicates the type of support given to each cohort of students. Students are eligible for assistantships funded through the School of Education for three years, thus after the 3rd year in the program, students seek assistantships through faculty grants or off-campus sources.
| Cohort Year | # Fellowship | # Assistantship | # Off-campus Employment | # Not funded | | 1 | 3 | 3 | | 1 | | 2 | 1 | 4 | | 0 | | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | | | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Licensure:Since 1998, 90% of all graduates eligible for licensure have successfully completed the requirements to gain licensure.
*Committee on Accreditation
c/o Office of Program and Accreditation
Education Directorate
American Psychological Association
750 First Street NE
Washington, DC, 20002-4242
(202) 226-5979 |
