It currently accommodates 35,000 students distributed across more than a hundred departments, in addition to colleges of Medicine, Nursing, and Law. The program is committed to collaboration among faculty and students investigating diverse aspects of cognition. Students are encouraged to work with more than one faculty member during their graduate study. A broad range of research experience is viewed as central to the student's graduate training. A Master's Thesis or equivalent body of research, of scope and quality suitable for publication, is typically submitted by the end of the second year.
Students normally receive their Ph.D. at the end of their fourth or fifth year.
Students in Cognitive Psychology also complete a rigorous program of advanced courses and seminars in core topics to give them a thorough grounding in the central issues in the field. Students take at least six seminars chosen from a list of seminars taught by Cognitive Psychology faculty. Click here to see the current list of available courses. Students also pursue coursework in their chosen minor area of study. Students in the Cognitive Psychology program are encouraged to focus their minor areas within the domains of the interdisciplinary programs in Cognitive Science and in Cognition and Neural Systems.