Ph.D. Program Overview
 The goal of the program is to provide quality education in Developmental Science at the doctoral level. This entails balancing the interests and goals of a diverse student body with the program’s goals of offering a graduate education that is broad, methodologically rigorous, and research-based. This combination of unique favorable conditions makes it possible for the program to offer students not only a diversity of educational opportunities, but also employment opportunities.
Graduates of our program are employed in a varied of settings including academic research settings, public sector settings, and private sector settings. In academic research settings, for example, they are employed in university, college, and community college settings as faculty members involved in teaching, research and community service. In public sector settings, they are employed in research settings as project directors and research coordinators
within national, state, and local government agencies and other pubic institutions. In private sector settings, they are
employed as as research consultants or project directors, in scientific management capacities, and in applied settings
as practitioners and planners, and in other service implementation and evaluation capacities.
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