Minimum Standards: All applicants will be considered. However, it is extremely rare for the Department of Psychology to offer admission to those who do not meet the following standards:
- Bachelor's degree in psychology or other relevant areas.
- 3.00 on a 4-point scale (see "For Clinical Applicants" below)
- Verbal + quantitative scores on the General Test of the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) of 1200 (see "For Clinical Applicants" below)
- TOEFL score of 550 for those students whose native language is not English
For Clinical Applicants: the Clinical Area Group has adopted the following minimum criteria:
(a) [(Undergraduate GPA) x (393.9)] + [(GRE verbal score) + (GRE quantitative score)] must be equal to
or greater than 2600; and (b) commitment to a research career.
- the Department Application form. (Email Graduate Secretary if you are
unable to access this application with this link, and please note that research
interests that closely match those of prospective faculty sponsor are highly valued -
see a list of faculty and their research interests at http://psych.wisc.edu)
Filing Dates:
- Application deadline is December 15
- Send application supporting materials to:
Department of Psychology
Graduate Admissions
1202 West Johnson Street
Madison, WI 53706
Other Information:
- Letters of recommendation must be submitted electronically.
- Our department requires the GRE General Test. The department strongly recommends that applicants also take the Psychology Subject Test of the GRE,
or if the student was not a psychology major, the subject test of the GRE that is closest to the student's undergraduate major. GRE registration information
may be obtained at:
To insure timely receipt of GRE scores, please use Institution Code 1846 when completing
the "Score Report Recipients" section of the GRE Registration form.
- SPEAK test required for international students applying for a teaching assistantship.
University of Wisconsin- Madison: Psychology Department
Brogden Hall, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706-1969
Office: (608) 262-0512 or (608) 262-1041
Fax: (608) 262-4029
