Overview
The City University of New York (CUNY) is a multi-campus publicly-funded system, the nation's third largest university, and the nation's leading urban university. The Graduate School of CUNY oversees all doctoral training within the university. In Psychology, doctoral training is divided among ten subprograms, each of which focuses on particular areas of doctoral training. Three of the subprograms in psychology are housed at the Graduate School and University Center in midtown Manhattan, while the other seven subprograms are located at the Baruch, Brooklyn, City, Hunter, and Queens Colleges of CUNY
The doctoral subprogram in Psychology at Brooklyn College is officially titled "Psychology: Cognition, Brain, and Behavior." We are a broad and general program with strong training in a wide variety of areas, all bound by our committment to psychology as an empirical science. Prospective students can get a better sense of the range of our program by clicking on individual faculty pages. The program is designed to prepare students for careers in basic and applied research in academic and other settings. (A Master of Arts degree program in Experimental Psychology is also offered by the Psychology Department.) The Ph.D. program stresses research experience under the supervision of faculty advisors throughout a student's graduate career. The major emphasis is on the study of higher mental functioning, neuroscience, social cognition, cognitive development and sensory and perceptual processes. Besides acquiring skills specific to their research interests, students are strongly encouraged to become familiar with general theoretical principles and with analytical, computational, and statistical techniques that are applicable to a wide range of basic and applied research problems. Students are also given strong training in the teaching of psychology.
In addition to courses offered by the doctoral faculty at Brooklyn College, students can take relevant graduate courses at the Graduate Center and at other CUNY colleges as well as other local universities including NYU and Columbia. Some program faculty have supplemental appointments at nearby institutions (the Health Science Center at Brooklyn, Polytechnic University, Rockefeller University), and this further broadens the scope of experimental training available to students.
