Fellowship, scholarship, and assistantship applications should be sent to the Graduate College, not the Department. In the unlikely event that all graduate student slots in the program are not filled by applicants applying by January 15th, late applications will be accepted until June 15th. Applicants are encouraged to submit their materials as early as possible. Applicants will be notified of the status of their application by April 15th at the latest. Doctoral programs in Clinical Psychology are reviewed and accredited by the American Psychological Association.
Programs can apply for accreditation only after they have graduated their first students.
The starting date for UNLV's doctoral program is the Fall of 1999. Therefore, the program's first APA accreditation review is planned for when this first student cohort is completing its internship. All Psychology Department faculty are involved in the training of Clinical Psychology students. The Applied Experimental Psychology doctoral program will focus on the training of research psychologists for employment in academic and non-academic settings. The objective is to produce graduates who will be prepared for a wide variety of research settings, with a strong emphasis on statistical and methodological skills that can be applied to real-world problems.