College of Psychology and Counseling

Thank you for your interest in Fairleigh Dickinson University. We offer programs starting at the undergraduate level and including graduate programs at the master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral level. So no matter where you are in your academic journey, we are here to support you and can offer professional development and advancement. We are a community of individuals who are passionate about being a student focused university. The shared vision on student success empowers our students, faculty, staff, and administrators to meet our students where they are and to support their growth into being knowledgeable, passionate, and empathic leaders of the future. We are thrilled to be part of FDU Health. It is essential that our communities recognize that health and wellbeing requires examination and understanding of both physical and mental health if we are to develop meaningful and effective interventions. We have always been actively engaged with these issues of holistic health and well-being through several of our programs. We offer master's degrees in clinical forensic psychology, school psychology with certification, general theoretical psychology, industrial organizational psychology, and clinical mental health counseling at the doctoral level we have a clinical psychology PhD program that also offers a forensic psychology track, an advanced schooly program. And a postdoctoral master's of science degree in clinical psychopharmacology, students learn to apply the material learned in class to develop skills in research, data collection, data analysis, research design, and critical thinking. These research experiences also lead to conference presentations, publications, and independent research projects for students. The graduate programs provide externship and internship opportunities to gain meaningful experience in a wide variety of environments and contexts, including inpatient and outpatient medical centers and hospitals, community mental health clinics, Fortune 500 companies, local, state, and federal government organizations, and many more. These experiences help students develop their skill set while simultaneously expanding their professional networking for career placements. Students receive close mentorship from our faculty, often in one on one settings, and can attend classes with a small student faculty ratio to allow for close monitoring and interaction with faculty and others. The clinical PhD program and the clinical forensic psychology programs are both accredited by the American Psychological Association. Our clinical psychopharmacology program received APA designation in 2010, the first such program to receive this designation. The school psychology master's plus certification is accredited by the National Association of School Psychologists. And the clinical mental health counseling program is accredited by the Council for Accreditation of counseling and related educational programs. All of our programs have proven track records of preparing students for successful careers after graduation. Our students graduate to pursue a variety of careers at universities, medical centers and hospitals. Inpatient psychiatric hospitals, private clinical practices, the FBI, Homeland Security, prisons and jails, substance abuse clinics, law enforcement, advertising executives, human resource executives, entrepreneurs, data analysts, and researchers. One advantage of a graduate degree in psychology is that the training prepares our graduates to consider human behavior and the strength of relationship development and thus a graduate can go on to careers in nearly any field. We look forward to having you here at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Please reach out with any questions. We are here to support you.