Psychology

专业介绍

1. Five years fully funded, with TA duties

All of our graduate students, including international students, are fully funded. This means that all tuition and fees are covered and graduate students receive $38,485 in additional support per year (25/26). This base level of support is provided by the Department, not individual faculty or student grants, which means that our graduate students can work across labs to collaborate, dabble, and experiment. 

As part of this support package graduate students serve as a teaching assistant (TA) for undergraduate courses during the academic year. Teaching Assistantships provide students with opportunities to work across research areas, grow their teaching expertise, and build relationships with department faculty and lecturers.

There are other sources of funding from the Department as well, such as a large departmental fund, created by UC San Diego’s own Norman H. Anderson, that supports annual travel to conferences for all graduate students, the McGill Research account, which provides $2,000 in your first year for research-related expenses, and the McGill Post-Advancement Research account which provides $1,000 for additional research-related expenses. 

2. A large campus-wide community

Psychologists at UC San Diego interact with researchers in Human Development, Philosophy, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience. In Psychology, students in each research area – Cognitive, Social, Developmental, and Cognitive Behavioral Neuroscience (see below) – get together weekly at Brown Bag meetings to discuss their research with other students and faculty. Although we don’t train Clinical Psychology graduate students, researchers with an interest in interacting with clinicians can find colleagues and friends in the UC San Diego Medical School. Upshot: We interact with each other a lot. 

3. Holistic review

We care about your research interests and experience – not just your grades and GRE scores. If you have an undergraduate degree and a strong track record of research experience, we want to hear from you (no previous master’s training is required). Sure, we’ll look at the numbers, but we’re much more interested in your research training and your match to our program. Reach out to us individually and we’ll help you figure out whether UC San Diego is the right place for you.