Academic Programs
The Department of Educational Psychology offers a minor in educational psychology (EDP) to undergraduate students, and master’s and doctoral programs for graduate students. Undergraduate students have the opportunity to take our courses as electives, minor in educational psychology, and/or participate in EDP research. Our master’s and doctoral programs explore theory through research and apply data driven approaches in a wide variety of settings. Students gain the skills necessary to make significant impacts in research and education.
Master’s Programs
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Turn data into meaningful impact. The fully-online and flexible Applied Data Analytics master’s program equips working professionals and busy students with the tools to uncover insights, improve outcomes and lead data-driven innovation across education and health organizations.
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The master’s program in counselor education involves the rigorous study of psychology and counseling. Graduates of the program are prepared to pursue licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor, and often go on to careers in community mental health clinics, group/private practice, higher education as advisers/career counselors, or doctoral study in counseling or related fields.
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The master’s programs in Human Development, Culture and Learning Sciences (HDCLS) train graduate students in theories of human cognition, culture, development, language, learning, motivation, social and personality psychology. Graduates are prepared for teaching and research careers in these areas.
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Quantitative Methods offers training in modern statistical and psychometric methods to prepare graduates to advance methodological research and to apply those methods to address educational and social science research questions. Our graduates are employed in academia, professional testing organizations, educational research and development agencies, industrial psychology agencies, governing agencies of higher education, state departments of education and research and program evaluation divisions of large school districts.
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This program prepares school psychologists who understand the development of children and adolescents in schools while supporting families and teachers. The program is designed for those who wish to work in schools as licensed school psychologist or for students interested in future doctoral training in school psychology.
Doctoral Programs
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Our doctoral program in counseling psychology is scientist-practitioner based, preparing Ph.D. psychologists to work with problems of human behavior in a range of social processes and systems.
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The Ph.D. program in Human Development, Culture and Learning Sciences (HDCLS) explores how people think, learn and grow. Students train in cognitive science, developmental psychology, sociocultural theory, motivation and learning sciences. Graduates pursue careers in academia, research institutes, corporations, government and nonprofits that value deep expertise in learning and development.
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The Ph.D. quantitative methods specializations offer training in modern statistical and psychometric methods to prepare graduates to advance methodological research and to apply those methods to address educational and social science research questions. Our graduates are employed in academia, professional testing organizations, educational research and development agencies, industrial psychology agencies, governing agencies of higher education, state departments of education and research and program evaluation divisions of large school districts.
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The School/Clinical Child Psychology Program Ph.D. program features a scientist-practitioner model designed to prepare psychologists to design and conduct cutting-edge research and deliver evidence-based services to support children and adolescents.
Undergraduate Minor
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The minor in Educational Psychology is open to all University of Texas at Austin undergraduate students. The minor requires completion of 15 undergraduate credit hours in Educational Psychology, at least six of which must be upper-division EDP coursework. Courses must be taken on a letter-grade basis to be counted towards the minor unless the course is only offered on a pass/fail basis.
