D Admission Requirements Admission to the program is highly competitive. Typically five students are accepted yearly out of a pool of 50-100 applicants. The mean age is approximately 28. The program actively recruits minority students and strongly encourages them to make application.
Students come from many different backgrounds and represent varied geographic regions and cultures.
Admission into the Ph.D. program comes after the student has obtained a master's degree. While students are selected from master's programs other than the Georgia State Program, all students are expected to have had course work in theories of helping, tests and measurements, group counseling, research, change strategies, systematic helping skills, and practicum. The formal requirements for the Ph.D. degree include extensive course work beyond the master's, a residency, successful completion of the comprehensive examinations, internship, and a dissertation. Much of the course work is tightly sequenced, and consequently, students are strongly urged to pursue the program full-time. Consequently, many of our doctoral students must add these to their doctoral programs.