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This full-time, one-calendar-year master’s program prepares graduates to work as mental health specialists, therapists, researchers, or school counselors. Graduates provide psychological services for children, adolescents, college students, families, or adults. Please see our FAQ page. The program’s innovative format combines course work with hands-on field experience. Students receive core coursework in psychological services and are encouraged to design their program of study based on psychological specialization and other coursework within the Graduate School of Education. A two-semester field placement provides the opportunity for students to learn and practice counseling skills in a professional environment. Students select placements from our pool of high quality training sites including mental health clinics, schools, research centers, hospitals, and colleges. Students receive supervision both on-site and in a small seminar group format at Penn.
Many opportunities exist for student/faculty dialogue on professional issues. The coursework and practical experience therefore work together to reinforce the development of the student’s emerging professional identity and to prepare the student for a successful psychological career.
Students in the Psychological Services M.S.Ed. Program have options for further study and career goals.
- Toward the end of the first fall semester, students in the Psychological Services M.S.Ed. Program may choose to apply to the advanced, second year Professional Counseling and Psychology Master of Philosophy (MPE) (PCAP) Program leading to licensure as a Professional Counselor. This program involves an additional year immediately after the one-year Psychological Services M.S.Ed. Program’s year. The two one-year programs are designed to give students a continuous two-year program and increased field experiences, as required for preparation toward licensure. Career prospects include Mid-level clinical, assessment, and consultation professional positions in education and mental health fields in public and private institutions, hospitals and paraprofessional health organizations, and state and federal criminal justice systems. For more information, please visit the Professional Counseling and Psychology MPE website. -or-
- Toward the end of the first fall semester, students in the Psychological Services M.S.Ed. Program may choose to apply to the one-semester Post-Master’s Certificate Program in Elementary or Secondary School Counseling for the State of
Pennsylvania
. This program involves an additional semester after the Psychological Services M.S.Ed. Program’s year, in which students work in a full-time internship supervised by a certified school counselor, and complete one academic course.
Requirements for School Counseling certification vary from state to state. Many states beyond
Pennsylvania
prefer candidates for certification who have completed a two-year academic degree in counseling. The Psychological Services M.S.Ed. Program immediately followed by the Professional Counseling and Psychology (PCAP) Program provides students with a continuous two-year program and increased field experiences as preparation toward certification in many states beyond
Pennsylvania
. For more information, please visit the Post-Master’s Certification Program in School Counseling web site.
Degree Requirements
The M.S.Ed. program in Psychological Services requires a minimum of 10 course units of approved graduate work beyond the baccalaureate degree. All students must meet a distributional requirement that demonstrates breadth within the field of education, take a written examination in the area of specialization, and complete a two-semester practicum assignment to satisfy the course of study requirements.
FALL
- EDUC 686 Psychological Intervention
- EDUC 687 Psychological Practice
- EDUC 688 Psychological Practicum
- EDUC 782 Psychological Assessment I
SPRING
- EDUC 688 Psychological Practicum Distributional Course (one course taken within GSE, but outside of the Psychology in Education Division)
- Up to 3 Psychology in Education electives
SUMMER
- 2 Applied Psychology - Human Development Electives
- Penn GSE Application
- Application fee
- Score report from the Graduate Records Examination (as reported by ETS)
- Statement of purpose
- Three letters of recommendation (at least one letter must be from a former professor)
- Academic transcripts from all undergraduate and graduate institutions
- International applicants must also supply the score report from the TOEFL or IELTS examinations
- Candidates may be requested to attend group interview sessions as part of the admissions process.
Application Deadline
The M.S.Ed. Program accepts full-time applications for study. Full-time students begin the program in the fall. Part-time study is available only to Penn employees. Applications for the M.S.Ed. degree are reviewed on a rolling basis until the degree program is full.
Program Faculty
Nichelle Davis Ahmaddiya, M.S.Ed., University of Pennsylvania
Douglas A. Frye, Ph.D.,
Yale
University
Ilene C. Rosenstein, Ph.D., University of Missouri–Columbia
Dianne S. Salter, Ph.D.,
Adelphi
University
, J.D.,
Rutgers
School
of Law
Amy Sichel, Ph.D.,
University
of
Pennsylvania
Diana Slaughter-Defoe, Ph.D.,
University
of
Chicago
Margaret Beale Spencer, Ph.D.,
University
of
Chicago
Jeanne L. Stanley, Ph.D.,
University
of
Pennsylvania
Daniel A. Wagner, Ph.D.,
University
of
Michigan
Evelyn A. Jordan, Coordinator
Applied Psychology-Human Development Division
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education
3700 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6216
evelynj@gse.upenn.edu
For more information please contact us or call 1-877-PENNGSE (736-6473).
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