Graduate Student Resources

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Find the information, forms and support you need to be successful in your psychology doctoral program and beyond.

Guides and Advising

Walk Dissertation Fellowship
Research Funding
Career Paths
Faculty by Focus Area

GW Doctoral Student Handbook
Student Accounts Office
Office of Student Financial Assistance
Office of Graduate Student Assistantships and Fellowships
CCAS Graduate Advising
How to Find a Postdoc: APA Guidance

Cost and Deadlines

The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences provides four years of funding to all admitted psychology doctoral students, including full tuition remission. Doctoral students in good standing may apply for teaching and research assistantships as well as department stipends and fellowships.

Past students have also received scholarships from external funding sources like the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Application Deadline (all doctoral programs): December 1