MSEd School Psychology
New York, USA
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
15 Dec 2024
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
USD 1,430 / per credit
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
If you have an educational background in psychology, a master’s in school psychology allows you to leverage your knowledge to enter into the critically important field of school psychology. Upon completion of this program, you will be ready to provide psychoeducational services at schools assisting students, educators, and parents. Graduates typically provide assessment, consultation, and intervention services in school settings.
Practitioner-Focused Training
- Develop the skills to provide assessment and intervention services for individual children and adolescents.
- Learn to design and implement school research and evaluation projects, and to assist teachers and other educational professionals.
- Bilingual specialization is available to qualifying students.
Add Opportunities and Experiences
Valuable Field Experience
Fieldwork is a core piece of your experience in the MSEd in School Psychology program. It begins with experiential activities through Pace University’s Thomas J. McShane Center for Psychological Services and extends to training opportunities in New York metropolitan area school districts. The program also includes a final school psychology internship, typically in a school district in the metropolitan area.
Qualified bilingual students may choose to complete additional coursework and practicum experiences that enable them to provide school psychological services to children in both monolingual and bilingual settings. Graduates with a Bilingual School Psychology specialization are eligible for the Bilingual Education Extension to the New York State training certificate in School Psychology.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Pace University offers students as much financial assistance as possible. Financial Aid can come in many forms, including scholarships and grants, work-study, and student loans. Financial Aid award packages offered by Pace University typically consist of a combination of awards from these types of aid programs.
General Rules Covering All Financial Aid
- Any combination of tuition-specific Pace-funded scholarships, grants, or awards and New York State or other tuition-specific funding cannot exceed your actual tuition charges.
- All financial aid combined may not exceed your Cost of Attendance.
- You must be matriculated in a degree program at Pace University to receive any financial aid other than Alternative Loans. (Note that some certificate program students also qualify). Matriculated means that you are admitted to and enrolled in a degree or applicable certificate program.
- Generally, students must be enrolled at least half-time (6 credits per semester) to qualify for aid. Exceptions are Federal Pell Grants and Alternative Loans.
- To review basic eligibility criteria for Pace University, Federal, and New York State aid programs please visit our General Eligibility section.
Pace Scholarships and Resources
- Institutional Scholarships and Grants
- Federal Grants
- New York State Scholarships and Grants
- Third-Party Scholarship Resources
Curriculum
Year 1
Fall
- PSY 501 Introduction to School-Clinical Child Psychology I: Professional Attitudes and Behavior (0)
- PSY 509A Practicum in Psychological Services: Psychotherapy (0)
- PSY 704 Advanced Developmental Psychology (3)
- PSY 717 Cognitive and Affective Bases of Behavior (3)
- PSY 721 Tests and Measurements (3)
- PSY 725 Advanced Personality Theories (3)
Spring
- PSY 502 Introduction to School-Clinical Child Psychology II: Communication and Interpersonal Skills (0)
- PSY 509A Practicum in Psychological Services: Psychotherapy (0)
- PSY 703 Psychological Assessment I (4)
- PSY 710 Psychopathology in Childhood and Adolescence (3)
- PSY 722 Intervention Tech II: Cognitive-Behavioral Perspectives (3)
- PSY 727 Learning Disabilities-Diagnosis/Remediation: Theories and Practice (3)
Summer
- PSY 839 Psychoanalytic Theory (3)
- PSY 876 Multicultural and Gender Intervention Issues (3)
Year 2
Fall
- PSY 509A Practicum in Psychological Services: Psychotherapy (0)
- PSY 707 Psychological Assessment II (4)
- PSY 715 Statistics and Research Design I (4)
- PSY 737 Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (3)
- PSY 738 School Field Experience and Seminar (3)
Spring
- PSY 509A Practicum in Psychological Services: Psychotherapy (0)
- PSY 712 Advanced Biological Bases of Behavior (3)
- PSY 713 Psychological Assessment III (4)
- PSY 723 Advanced Social Psychology (3)
- PSY 739 The Exceptional Child: Field Experience and Seminar (3)
Summer
- PSY 720 Integrating Seminar (3)
Year 3
Fall
- PSY 734 Consultation (3)
- PSY 750 School-Clinical Child Psychology I: Internship, Ethics, and Seminar (4)
- PSY 759 Early Childhood and Infant Assessment (3)
Spring
- PSY 751 School-Clinical Child Psychology II: Internship, Ethics, and Seminar (4)
Career Opportunities
Choose Your Career
With the 69-credit hour MSEd in School Psychology degree program, you’ll be fully prepared to provide psychoeducational services in the school setting.
Graduates are primarily employed in school settings and many go on to doctoral study.
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