Welcome to the Department of Psychological Sciences

Welcome to the Department of Psychological Sciences website. We hope you will find everything you need on this website, but if not, we are just a phone call away. Of course we always welcome visitors to the department as well.

The Department of Psychological Sciences is currently home to 30 full‐time tenured and tenure-track faculty members, 5 full-time teaching-track faculty members, 9 staff members, approximately 125 graduate students, and approximately 1,400 undergraduate psychology majors. At the graduate-level, the department offers the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology, and Experimental Psychology. The latter includes programs in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Human Factors Psychology, and Social Psychology. Our Clinical and Counseling Psychology programs are accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA) and our Human Factors Psychology program is accredited by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES). At the undergraduate-level, the department offers a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts. Our department also houses the Psychology Clinic, which is a training and research center that provides psychotherapy and assessment services to the University, Lubbock, and neighboring communities.

Although we are experiencing significant growth, it remains our mission to excel in teaching, nationally recognized research, and outstanding service to the university, profession and community. We are sending more students to graduate school, law school, and medical school than ever before. I think you’ll find that our faculty and students alike represent a broad range of expertise and interests. Dedicated to the creation and dissemination of knowledge in the psychological sciences, our faculty members are outstanding teachers, researchers and professional leaders in psychology at the state, regional and national levels. We take great pride in creating an environment conducive to learning, growth and development for all of our students. Our undergraduates have an excellent record of achieving admission to graduate programs and our doctoral student alumni have succeeded as academicians, clinicians, researchers and in related positions in industry.

We hope you’ll find this website interesting, informative and easy to navigate. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with questions, comments or feedback. There’s definitely a place for you in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Texas Tech University.