The range of funding opportunities for our students is broad. Many students in our program receive funding in the form of teaching assistantships, research assistantships, university or professional organization scholarships and fellowships, and applied placements in local mental health service sites or educational institutions. Many students supplement stipends from these sources with student loans and work-study. Although the program cannot guarantee funding for every student in the program, program directors and faculty have been very successful in the last several years at securing funding for students who express a desire to have partial or full funding. All first-year students receive 20-hour assistantships, which carry a full tuition benefit.

The Tuition Benefit Program (TBP) provides tuition payment for eligible graduate students. A graduate tuition benefit is available only to matriculated graduate students compensated through the University of Utah. The TBP covers general graduate tuition and mandatory fees. Differential tuition charged by various university graduate and professional programs, and all non- mandatory fees are the responsibility of the student.

There are three types of assistantships that support Counseling Psychology (CP) students:

• Research Assistantships: Individual faculty may have grants to support their students. In addition, the Department of Educational Psychology and the Counseling Psychology Program provide research assistants to untenured faculty. Finally, CP students may work on grants with faculty in other programs and departments.
• Teaching Assistantships (TAs):
  • The Department offers multiple TA positions to support our distance education counseling programs in St. George, Utah. Both the Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CMHC) and the School Counseling (SC) programs have a cohort of St. George students. These students receive instruction through a broadcast from a classroom on our Salt Lake campus to a classroom at our St. George campus. The CP doctoral students serve as TAs for these courses, assisting faculty with grading, preparing for class, or teaching class sessions.
  • Positive Psychology Courses: Our Positive Psychology Program is a fully on-line program that offers a certificate in Positive Psychology. The Meditation and Stress course is a formal TA-ship that receives tuition benefits. Our students also teach for the program in various capacities, from volunteer assistants to instructors to their own classes paid based on enrollment.
• Graduate Assistantships: Our program sponsors two general graduate assistantships. The first is a 10-hour a week Program Assistant, usually from the first-year class, who works with the Program Directors of the CP, CMHC, and SC programs on various administrative and program improvement tasks. The second is a 10-hour per week Clinic Assistantship, an advanced doctoral student who assists in the Counseling Practicum at our in-house clinic. Both are tuition-benefitted positions.

Counseling Psychology Information Sessions

These video conference information sessions will provide important information about our Ph.D. Program. Please review our program introduction video on this page before the information session. The video includes an introduction to our program, what professionals in these careers do, the job outlook, program requirements, admissions requirements, and the admissions process. The information session will primarily be a question-and-answer session about the program. Video Conference Times are in Mountain Time, so adjust if you are in a different time zone.

Please contact ed-cpasst@utah.edu and specify which date to participate.

Upcoming Info Session Dates/Times:

January 27th, 7:15pm-8:15pm MST
February 24th, 7:15pm-8:15pm MST
March 24th, 7:15pm-8:15pm MST
April 21st, 7:15pm-8:15pm MST