The University of North Dakota (UND) is the state’s oldest and largest institution of higher learning with an enrollment of about 13,000 students. UND was founded in 1883, six years before North Dakota became a state, and it currently is the largest post-secondary educational institution in the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, or Idaho. UND supports 22 doctoral programs, 57 master’s programs, and North Dakota’s only law and medical schools. UND’s main campus is located on 570 acres in the heart of Grand Forks (population approximately 50,000) on the North Dakota-Minnesota border on the eastern edge of vast northern plains. UND is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and School.

The Psychology Department has 17 tenure-track faculty members and a full-time Psychological Services Clinic director. The department has a multidimensional mission to provide quality undergraduate education, graduate clinical training, student advisement at both the baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate levels, teacher education for graduates assuming higher education positions, faculty and student scholarship which advances psychology as a behavioral science, and mental health service providers in rural Native American communities via our Indians in Psychology Doctoral Education (INPSYDE) program. Consistent with this mission, the Department of Psychology strives to meet its extensive commitments to university general education (providing service courses for between 1800 and 2000 students each semester), psychology undergraduate education (serving about 400 majors and 150 minors), and psychology graduate training (serving over 50 graduate students in clinical and general/experimental psychology).

The department offers a MA degree in general psychology, a MS in Forensic Psychology (MA through distance learning), and a Ph.D. in either clinical or experimental. Our doctoral program in clinical psychology has been accredited by the APA since 1969. All graduate students in the department complete the MA prior to advancement to doctoral training unless they are admitted with an equivalent Master’s degree requiring an empirical thesis from another institution. The department’s graduate programs are designed for residential students who are enrolled full-time. Applicants interested in part-time enrollment are not admitted.

The graduate programs within the Department of Psychology are all scientifically-oriented with requirements for intensive work in both scholarly and applied aspects of the discipline. Both Ph.D. programs preparing students and graduates to: a) be respected scholars in their field as manifested in the generation of high quality research which is disseminated in their lecturing, writing, and presentations; c) participate actively in the application of scientific findings in their respective areas; and d) to integrate and combine their scientific and applied activities as a method of further enhancing the quality of each.

FACILITIES

The Psychology Department is housed in Corwin-Larimore Hall, a four-story building remodeled to provide a facility for study and research. Although lower-level courses often combine large lectures with small recitation sections, there is abundant opportunity for interaction with professors and for attention to the needs of students.

The Psychological Services Center (PSC) is operated by the department as a service to the community and as a training facility for clinical graduate students. PSC is located in a separate building.