Educational Psychology, PhD
Doctorate in Educational Psychology
Curriculum
The program requires 71 hours of coursework, including curriculum that focuses on the following core areas:
- Psychology of Human Learning
- Human Development in Psychology
- Human Motivation
- Research Design & Methodology
Research and Faculty
The Educational Psychology faculty are active researchers and encourage and support student-led research. Recent projects include communication technologies and youth’s psychosocial development, social media and psycho-emotional well-being, the relationship between mindset and socioeconomic status, meaning-making processes in collaborative learning contexts, the psychological climate of online learning environments and self-regulation, predictors of psychological well-being, teachers’ social perspective-taking ability and the relationship of student openness to multicultural instruction and ESL teachers’ sense of responsibility.
Faculty expertise includes:
- How group discussion — face-to-face and online — impacts the learning process
- Adolescents' and emerging adults’ psychological and social development in the digital age
- How teacher beliefs impact student motivation
- How students’ individual motivational profiles and environmental factors holistically impact their academic outcomes
Motivation in Classrooms Lab
Communication Technologies and Youth Development Lab
Meet our faculty
College research initiatives
Admissions
Applications to the program are considered once per year with a January 15 deadline.
To apply for the program, complete the following:
- Graduate College application
- Transcripts from all previously attended institutions (2.5 minimum undergraduate GPA and 3.5 minimum graduate GPA required)
- Current vita
- Three letters of recommendation
- GRE scores (taken within the last five years). A total score of at least 300 on the verbal and quantitative subtests is recommended, with a minimum of 150 on each. For the writing subtest, a minimum score of 3.5 is also strongly recommended.
- Professional goal statement (approximately two pages, double-spaced)
- Professional writing sample (scholarly paper, thesis or other publication)
- TOEFL or IELTS scores (if required to establish English proficiency)
Cost & Assistance
The OSU Fellowship in Educational Psychology provides four-year support for PhD student-scholars whose research interests focus on instruction, learning, development and/or motivation in reducing educational disparities of under-represented and historically marginalized students in the state of Oklahoma and beyond. Application materials must be submitted by Feb. 15.
Graduate assistantships, which provide a monthly stipend as well as tuition and health insurance, are offered annually on a competitive basis. Students interested in applying for an assistantship through the educational psychology program should email jane.vogler@okstate.edu.
Currently enrolled students are also eligible for scholarships offered through the College of Education and Human Sciences.