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#Graduate Programs in Psychology - Online and On-Campus

Students who join Palo Alto University (PAU) as master's or doctoral candidates are marked by their determination in the pursuit of a deeper understanding of human behavior, as well as their commitment to improving the lives of others. PAU meets this determination with personalized classroom instruction, clinical supervision, and research mentoring to help students achieve the next step in their career.

As an institution, PAU is dedicated to promoting future innovators and leaders for the benefit of society; to generating knowledge through research and scholarship of the highest level; and to providing services to the community informed by science and scholarship.

Faculty approach students with individualized attention and well-earned expertise. Every faculty member is selected for their ability to model excellence in their specific professional endeavors; they teach and supervise based on their own extensive experience.

Graduate Programs

Our master's and doctoral candidates learn to balance evidence-based clinical models while maintaining the responsibilities that counselors and psychologists have to their community, society, and profession.

DOCTORAL PROGRAMS

Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology

Working within a training model best described as "practitioner-scientist," students systematically move through five years of coursework and practica to acquire doctoral-level competence and capability in areas of psychological theory, research, and practice.