Graduate Studies at Howard

• Founded in 1867, Howard University is a comprehensive, private, predominantly African American institution located in the nation’s capital, Washington, DC. The university has 12 schools and colleges with approximately 11,000 students from every state in the US and nearly every continent, and approximately 2,000 faculty members.

• The Graduate School is internationally renowned as a center for research and academic excellence. The Graduate School provides research and classroom study in a dynamic, multicultural, and international setting. The student body of more than 1,500 represent 35 states and 59 countries worldwide. The multiracial faculty of researchers/scholars, numbering more than 300 have close mentor-student relationships. The School offers the Ph.D. degree in 26 programs and the master’s degree in 33 programs in 100 specializations.

• Howard University has been designated Doctoral/Research University-Extensive by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.    It is one of only 89 universities in the nation; one of 25 such private universities, one of two universities in the Washington, DC area, and the only historically black educational institution with this distinction.

• The University’s Libraries System encompasses the Founder’s Library (the central research library), the Undergraduate Library, and the branch libraries in all of the professional schools. The Association of Research Libraries, of which the Howard University system is a member, ranks it among the top 100 research libraries in the nation. The University is also home to the Moorland-Springarn Research Center, one of the largest and most important collections of materials by and about African American people.

• The University’s numerous research and instructional laboratories provide a state-of-the-art computer and high technology environment. Additionally, Howard is a member of the Consortium of Universities in the Washington Metropolitan area.

• Aside from campus research facilities and resources, other educational opportunities are available in the various national governmental agencies, on Capitol Hill, in the Library of Congress, and in a host of other area research facilities, such as the National Institutes of Health.

• Full-time students enrolled for 9-15 hours pay tuition of approximately $5,500 per semester. Part-time students pay a tuition rate of $583 per credit hours. (All fees are subject to change).

Psychology Graduate Programs

• The Department of Psychology offers courses leading to the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. 

• The areas of concentration are clinical, developmental, experimental, neuropsychology, personality, and social psychology.

• Students applying to the Department of Psychology must obtain an application for admission from The Graduate School. The application should include a nonrefundable application fee of $45 payable to Howard University only by a certified check or money order. Students are required to submit recent Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test scores as a part of their application.

Master of Science: Beginning students are expected to have majored in psychology in undergraduate work, but this requirement may be waived for students with strong backgrounds in relevant fields.

Doctor of Philosophy: Students admitted for postmaster’s study with a master’s degree from another institution or with a master’s completed at Howard more than three years before admission may also be required to make up deficiencies. When the requirements for the master’s degree have been completed, formal application for admission to postmaster’s study may be made.

• for Master of Science: 

  • Students must complete 36 credit hours. Students entering with a bachelor’s degree must take 12 credits during the first semester, including PSYC-201 and PSYC-207 and 12 credits during the second semester, including PSYC-208 and three electives.

• for Doctor of Philosophy:  

  • Students must take 72 credits beyond the bachelor’s degree. They must select a major and minor field and plan a specific program in consultation with their advisers. Students must also pass a comprehensive examination and submit and orally defend a dissertation. Candidates for the Ph.D. degree must obtain the equivalent of 42 semester hours of credit beyond the M.S. degree or 78 hours beyond the baccalaureate degree with a grade point average of 3.0 or better, pass qualifying examinations, and complete and defend a dissertation. The dissertation must advance knowledge in the research area and must be of publishable quality.

• Students must also pass the Proficiency in Expository Writing Examination. Consult the Graduate School for examination dates. (202) 806-6800.

Faculty Members

Linda Berg-Cross, Ph.D., Columbia University, Clinical: family psychology; 

A. Wade Boykin, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Developmental; psychology of the black experience; 

Alfonso L. Campbell, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, Clinical; laterization of cognitive processes; 

Kellina M. Craig, Ph.D., Tulane University, Social; diversity and intergroup and interpersonal relations in work settings; aggression including: domestic violence and hate crime; 

Stefanie Gilbert, Ph.D., University of South Florida, Clinical; sociocultural perspectives of eating disorders, body image, fear of success; 

Jules P. Harrell, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Personality and Clinical; psychophysiology; 

Leslie H. Hicks, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Neuropsychology; brain and behavior; 

Hope M. Hill, Ph.D., Columbia University, Clinical; community violence and the social emotional development of African American children; 

Ronald Hopson, Ph.D., Michigan State University, Clinical and Personality; substance abuse, severe mental illness, and theology and psychology; 

Donald L. King, Ph.D., Stanford University, Experimental; gestalt-related research on pattern perception; 

Jerome Kravitz, Ph.D., New School for Social Research, Experimental; perceptual learning, cognition and language; 

Ometha Lewis-Jack, Ph.D., Howard University, Clinical; diagnosis and treatment of substance use disorders: neuropsychological assessment: drugs and behavior; 

Serge Madhere, Ph.D., New York University, Developmental; psychometrics and statistics, cognitive and cross-cultural psychology; 

Michael Myslobodsky, M.D. Kharkov State University Medical School, USSR; Ph.D., D.Sci. Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Moscow, USSR, Neuropsychology; midline abnormalities and psychopathology, hemispatial neglect, MRI with psychologically disordered patients, the biological psychiatry of self-deception; 

Debra D. Roberts, Ph.D., Temple University, Developmental; ethnic/cultural identity and the normative development of children of African descent; 

Albert Roberts, Ph.D., Emory University, Developmental (life-span); 

Lloyd R. Sloan, Ph.D., Ohio State University, Experimental and Social; 

Dominicus So, Ph.D., University of Maryland, Clinical; alternative medicine, psychology and spirituality; holistic health; child psychotherapy; instructional and research activities via the internet;

B. James Starr, Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, Social; cross-cultural psychology; justice;

Sandra S. Tangri, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Social; psychology of women; 

Yolanda V. Van Horn, Ph.D., Duke University, Clinical; developmental psychopathology, cognitive and personality assessment, prevention of childhood psychological disorders.

To request for Graduate Application Packet:

Application Materials due at the Office of Graduate Admissions

• Three letters of recommendation, preferably from persons who are acquainted with your academic achievements.

• A brief autobiographical sketch.

• A personal interest statement describing your professional goals and interests.

• Two copies of all of your transcripts from undergraduate and graduate schools that you have attended. The transcripts must be certified and received from the school’s registrar’s office.

• A nonrefundable certified check or money order for $45 made payable to: Howard University.

• Official scores on the general (verbal, quantitative, and analytical) of the Graduate Records Examination (GRE).

Application Deadlines for respective graduate programs

• ^{Clinical Psychology - February 1st} 

• ^{Developmental Psychology - April 1st}

• ^{Experimental Psychology -April 1st}

• ^{Neuropsychology - April 1st}

• ^{Personality Psychology - April 1st}

• ^{Social Psychology - April 1st}

^{Further Information about admissions at Howard University Psychology Graduate Programs}

• Please contact either of the following:

• ^{Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Psychology, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059.   Phone: (202) 806-6805.}

• ^{Graduate School, Howard University, 4th & College Streets, NW, Washington, DC 20059.    Phone: (202)806-7469.  Email: hugsadmission@howard.edu}

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