Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program
The Ph.D. in clinical psychology typically requires 5-6 years of full-time study, including a year-long internship at an APA-accredited internship program. The program in clinical psychology only admits students for the doctoral degree. During their pursuit of the doctoral degree, however, students usually earn a thesis-related masters degree (unless they have already earned a similar thesis-related masters degree elsewhere). There is not a terminal masters degree admission for clinical psychology. A masters degree in psychology typically requires successful completion of at least 36 credit hours of required coursework at Texas Tech, plus successful completion of other program requirements like the masters thesis research project and certain statistics courses. A doctoral degree in psychology has some variance in the required total hours because of such factors as the differences between doctoral psychology programs, diversity of student interests, range of academic backgrounds, and other practical issues. Doctoral students in psychology at Texas Tech typically earn approximately 90-120 credit hours of required coursework in their graduate program before successfully completing their doctoral degree. In addition, other doctoral program requirements must be completed successfully before the doctoral degree is awarded.
