Application Procedures

The following information is required as part of the application. (available to download)

1. A completed and signed application form.
2. A statement of your professional experiences, including a description of your clinical experience, research experience, and those aspects of psychology in which you have the greatest interest; additionally, describe briefly your professional goals.
3. A check for the $50 nonrefundable application fee ($100 total if applying to both programs) made payable to Nova Southeastern University.
4. The completed application worksheet.
5. Official General GRE scores to be sent directly to the NSU Enrollment Processing Services (EPS)*. Include a photocopy of the GRE scores (if available).
6. Three letters of recommendation, in addition to the enclosed forms, from professors or supervisors most familiar with your work must be sent directly to the NSU Enrollment Processing Services (EPS)*.
7. Official transcripts from all colleges or universities you attended (to be sent directly to the NSU Enrollment Processing Services (EPS)*. If an initial transcript does not reflect degree conferral or final semester grades, you must forward a final transcript to the NSU Enrollment Processing Services (EPS)*. as soon as this information becomes available.
8. Where applicable, foreign nationals should submit TOEFL scores.
9. Curricum Vitae

Transfer of Credits

All transfer credit must be awarded during the student's first academic year in the doctoral program. Consideration will be given only to doctoral-level courses taken before matriculation in the doctoral program. Request for transfer credit for first semester courses must be made during the summer, before July 15. Request for all other transfer credit must be made during the fall, before October 15.

Transfer credits will be awarded when the course being evaluated meets all of the following criteria:
 

1. It is a doctoral-level course taken at an accredited college, university, or APA-approved professional school as a postbaccalaureate student. A doctoral-level course is defined as one that would be credited toward a doctoral degree at the institution where the course was taken. This must be verified in the school's bulletin or a letter from the chair of the department and an official transcript.
2. It was completed no longer than five years before first enrollment in this program.
3. A grade of B or higher was received. A grade of P (Pass) or CR (Credit) or other such grade cannot be accepted as equivalent to B unless it can be officially verified as such.
4. It is evaluated as equivalent to a course in the program's required curriculum. Credits will not be awarded for electives.
5. The student must successfully demonstrate competence to the evaluating faculty member for assessment courses.

The student must provide the Office of Academic Affairs with a syllabus and catalog description of courses for which transfer is sought. Faculty members evaluating transfer courses may require the student to provide further documentation and supporting material, such as class notes, and to meet with them.

The maximum number of credits transferred that will be credited toward graduation is l5. Although credits awarded beyond this number may be used to excuse a student from a particular course, an equivalent number of elective credits must be taken in order to fulfill the degree requirements.

No transfer credits may be applied to pre-practicum, practicum, internship, or electives.

Nova Southeastern University complies with federal regulations for veterans’ training that it is mandatory for all veterans benefit recipients to report either prior education and/or training (see catalog section Veterans’ Benefits).

Provisional Admissions

Students may be provisionally admitted to a degree-seeking program based on a review of unofficial transcripts or other specific program admission requirements. However, this admission includes a condition that final and official documents and requirements must be received within 90 calendar days from the start of the term. If these final and official documents and/or requirements are not received by that time, the student will not be allowed to continue class attendance. Financial aid will not be disbursed to a provisional/conditional student until he or she has been fully admitted as a regular student (all admission requirements have been approved by the college/program admissions office).