If you are interested in working with school-age children:

Have your faculty advisor help you identify EdD or PhD programs in school psychology or educational psychology. These programs require a minimum of three years beyond the bachelor's degree.

Obtain catalogs and other materials that will help you identify the undergraduate course work needed to make you an attractive candidate for selection by the graduate programs of your choice.

Discuss your plans with your faculty advisor.

Make sure that your undergraduate program includes courses in research design and statistics, which will help you immeasurably with your doctoral dissertation. Also take courses in abnormal psychology, developmental psychology, learning, cognition, and personality. Consider an undergraduate field experience or internship course, if your institution offers one.

Join the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and/or your regional psychological association as a student member. Attend a convention, if possible.

Get to know other psychology majors and the professors in your psychology department. Join the psychology club or psychology honorary society in your psychology department. Look for announcements of psychology activities to which students are invited. Attend as many as you can.

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