Comments on: How can I get a degree in Clinical Psychology and apply myself to leadership in higher education? http://www.psychyclub.com/how-can-i-get-a-degree-in-clinical-psychology-and-apply-myself-to-leadership-in-higher-education Get knowledge on all types of Psychological matters. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:32:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: achillesfear http://www.psychyclub.com/how-can-i-get-a-degree-in-clinical-psychology-and-apply-myself-to-leadership-in-higher-education/comment-page-1#comment-174 achillesfear Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:35:15 +0000 http://www.psychyclub.com/how-can-i-get-a-degree-in-clinical-psychology-and-apply-myself-to-leadership-in-higher-education#comment-174 Your Ph.D. will take you the 4-5 years of undergrad, you'll need a G.P.A well above 3.5 to get into any clinical psychology programs. You'll spend another 2-3 years working on your M.S. and then an additional 3-4 years getting your Ph.D. On top of that you'll have to work under direct supervision for another year before you can get licensed. This education alone will cost you a fortune. Once you get to this point then you'll have to start looking around for professor level positions at universities and then be willing to relocate. A Ph.D. from a well respected university will help you greatly here as well as a strong history with research. Beyond that you'll have to get tenure and then if you show good leadership potential you may find yourself as a department chair or Dean of a College within the university. Just as a notice when i looked at these programs several years ago at a not very highly respected Ph.D. program the acceptance rate for their Clinical Ph.D. program was about 3% of all applicants. You'll need outstanding grades, recommendations, and standardized test scores to get into a good program. Even that program the average GPA for those accepted was above 3.6 out of 4.0 Your Ph.D. will take you the 4-5 years of undergrad, you’ll need a G.P.A well above 3.5 to get into any clinical psychology programs. You’ll spend another 2-3 years working on your M.S. and then an additional 3-4 years getting your Ph.D. On top of that you’ll have to work under direct supervision for another year before you can get licensed. This education alone will cost you a fortune.

Once you get to this point then you’ll have to start looking around for professor level positions at universities and then be willing to relocate. A Ph.D. from a well respected university will help you greatly here as well as a strong history with research.

Beyond that you’ll have to get tenure and then if you show good leadership potential you may find yourself as a department chair or Dean of a College within the university.

Just as a notice when i looked at these programs several years ago at a not very highly respected Ph.D. program the acceptance rate for their Clinical Ph.D. program was about 3% of all applicants. You’ll need outstanding grades, recommendations, and standardized test scores to get into a good program. Even that program the average GPA for those accepted was above 3.6 out of 4.0

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