Graduate Majors
The Department offers six distinct graduate majors, each culminating in the Ph.D. in Psychological Sciences (note that the Department does not offer terminal master's degree programs). The links below provide information about each of these graduate training areas:
- Clinical Psychological Sciences
- Cognitive Psychology
- Industrial-Organizational Psychology
- Mathematical and Computational Cognitive Science
- Neuroscience and Behavior
- Social Psychology
The Department has particular strengths in several areas of research that transcend specific majors. Learn more about these Departmental Bridge Topics.
The Department of Psychological Sciences offers a Graduate Certificate in Psychological Statistics. This is a graduate-level certification program that is available to students currently admitted to a graduate degree program at Purdue. Students earning the certificate will demonstrate a broad theoretical understanding of advanced quantitative methods. They will also learn the technical skills (e.g., software; computer programming) necessary to integrate these advanced methods into their substantive research programs.