Student Admission, Outcomes and Other Data

Students with a relevant master’s degree are often able to transfer in credits or waive course requirements, which may or may not shorten their overall time to degree. Information on the transfer policy is available on page 51 of the CPSP Handbook. For the past ten years, the average time to completion for our program is 5 years. When students enter with a master’s degree, the average time to completion is 5 years.

For the past ten years, the vast majority of CPSP students were fully funded through a variety of sources, including university research and administrative assistantships, department and graduate school assistantships, Presidential and Schomburg fellowships, and part-time positions on and off campus. Recently, UB created a new Doctoral Excellence Program as a means of enhancing funding and support for doctoral students. Doctoral students who are funded receive full support for all four years at a higher amount and with more support than in previous years; however, given limited funds, some incoming students may not receive funding. We will work with those students to assist them in their efforts to secure funding. Finally, at UB funded graduate students are typically responsible for paying their own university fees though in some cases, GSE will cover those costs.

At UB, tuition waivers for out of state students only cover tuition costs at the in-state level for the first semester. After that first semester, students with assistantships are considered in-state and tuition waivers cover 100 percent of tuition except for international students who are only able to receive tuition waivers for in-state level of tuition.

During the past nine years, 92 percent of students who sought an APA-accredited internship matched.

As a combined program, we have students from both counseling psychology and school psychology concentrations seeking internships with different goals and opportunities. Given the limited number of APA accredited school-based internships, in the past ten years, 17 school psychology students chose to complete non-accredited internships that meet or exceed the Council of Directors of School Psychology (CDSPP) standards in the past eight years. These sites have included school settings, hospital-based programs, child/adolescent day treatment programs, or child/family treatment centers. In the past 6years 100% of counseling psychology students have matched with APA-accredited internships.

Over the past 10 years, nine students did not complete the program. Three left the program for lack of academic progress, two elected to transfer to other programs, and four resigned for personal or medical reasons. All but two students have graduated from the program within seven years.

Fourteen recent graduates are finalizing the requirements for licensure (e.g., post-doc hours, EPPP exam) and will be applying within the next year. This will then result in about 88 percent of the graduates in the past 10 years being licensed.

As articulated in Standard I.B.2, programs may have “admission and employment policies that directly relate to affiliation or purpose” that may be faith-based or secular in nature. However, such policies and practices must be disclosed to the public.

This program does not require students, trainees and/or staff to comply with specific policies or practices related to the institution’s affiliation or purpose. Such policies or practices may include, but are not limited to, admissions, hiring, retention policies and/or requirements for completion that express mission and values.