Application Process

WE ARE WAIVING THE TEST SCORE REQUIREMENT AGAIN FOR THE FALL 2026 APPLICATION CYCLE. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT TEST SCORES.

Your application will include:

  • The university on-line application
  • Two letters of recommendation
  • Transcripts from all Universities attended
  • A resume or curriculum vitae
  • A personal statement addressing 3 targeted essay prompts
    • Statement of Purpose Instructions for I/O Psychology MA applicants
    • Please answer the following three essay questions in your personal statement and upload your personal statement in the Graduate School’s application portal as one document containing all three essays.
    • Please limit EACH of the three essays to approximately one page each, double-spaced.
    • 1. Our I/O psychology MA program is a part-time, evening program for working professionals that is focused on teaching you the science of I/O psychology so that you may apply it, as well as building applied skills. We also value using data to make decisions within organizations and teaching those data analytic skills to our students. Also, given the part-time, evening nature of our program most students work full-time and typically do not engage in hands-on research with faculty in their labs or do a thesis unlike many other I/O master’s programs. Given that description of our program, what are the main things that are appealing to you about our program? In addition, more broadly speaking, what about the field of I/O psychology interests you? What do you hope to do with an I/O master’s degree once you are finished? How do you think our degree will help you meet your goals? Finally, what made you decide to pursue an I/O master’s degree as opposed to an M.B.A. or a Ph.D. in I/O psychology?
    • 2. In this program, as in the workplace, you will be expected to engage constructively with both people and ideas you disagree with. In order to effectively apply evidence based I/O psychology ideas in the workplace, you will need to be able to communicate across differences, including communicating with people who do not have a background in I/O psychology.  Please provide a brief essay that provides an example of how you have communicated constructively across differences and/or disagreement either in your academic or professional life.
    • 3. Please tell us about a time you had to use data to solve a problem or use data to make a decision, or had to use data as part of a project at work or during college. Did you analyze the data yourself or was it provided to you? If you analyzed it yourself, what tool did you use (e.g. Excel, SPSS, R, etc.)? Describe the problem you were trying to solve and how the data helped you in that situation.

You may apply through Graduate Admissions.

Application Timeline

Our next class will begin the program in the Fall of 2026. The application due date for all materials to be submitted will be February 15, 2026.

Once we start reviewing applications, you may be asked to participate in a phone or Zoom interview.