Accreditation and Public Disclosures
The Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Saskatchewan is accredited by the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) through its Accreditation Panel for Doctoral Programs and Internships in Professional Psychology. The program received a 5-year renewal of its accreditation in 2022-2023 and is currently accredited until 2027-2028..
Canadian Psychological Association Head Office:
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Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5J3
Tel: 613-237-2144
Toll free (in Canada): 1-888-472-0657
Fax: 613-237-1674
Key Information about the Program
The primary educational model for the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan is scientist-practitioner. The program offers a balanced emphasis on foundational preparation, core knowledge in the discipline, and the development of both research and clinical skills. The professional objective of the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology is to prepare trainees for careers as clinical psychologists in academic, clinical, community, private practice, and research settings. The programme is generalist in nature and is designed to provide a broad preparation for later specialization at the post-doctoral level. Opportunities for students obtain training focused in several specialized areas (e.g., forensic, geriatric neuropsychology, pediatrics) exist, but are dependent on the availability of specific supervisors.
CPA accreditation standards indicate that the program must publicly share specific information about the program. Extensive information about the program is provide throughout this website. Specific descriptive statistics regarding admissions (e.g., number of applicants) students in the program, internships, and graduates of the program are provided below.
Admissions
We are undergoing an expansion and took 11 students in 2024. In the first year of our expansion we had 218 applicants and the acceptance rate was 5%. The following information provides information about the yearly size of the applicant pool, the diversity of the applicant pool in terms of numbers and diversity in degrees granted pre-application and yearly acceptance rates are in Public Disclosure Table 1.
Please note that in 2021-22 we did not take a cohort of students.
In most cases, students admitted to the program have a Grade Point Average over their last 2-years of study that is at least 85% or above. The program no longer requires GRE scores from applicants.
Student Body and Student Activities
The student body includes more than 40 students post-expansion, and details on the diversity in the student body, attrition rates, and nature of financial support on a yearly basis are provided in Public Disclosure Table 3. Finally this table also includes information about the percentage of students who became registered/licenced psychologists.
Internships
The program requires the completion of a CPA-accredited internship or its equivalent. Students typically apply to several internship program and participate in competitive process that matches students to internships based on raking submitted by students and the internship program (i.e., the APPIC match; see https://www.appic.org/). The attached table details how over students participated in the match process over the past 7 years. A vast majority of these students were matched to an internship accredited by CPA or by the American Psychological Association. Public Disclosure Table 2 provides further details of the internship applicants from program (i.e., number of applicants/year) and details of the practicum experiences (i.e., hours of direct clinic contact and supervision) obtained by students prior to going on internship.
Graduates of the Program
The program is designed to be completed in 5 years (4 years of full-time study plus 1 year of full-time clinical training as part of an accredited internship), but as you can see in the table that is updated yearly the years to completion can vary widely. Further statistics regarding graduates of the program are included in Public Disclosure Table 4.