Psychology - BA or BS?

Donemom
Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:17:10 +0000

My daughter ended up getting a BS in psych because she wasn’t sure at the time if she wanted to be a psychologist or psychiatrist, so the pre-med curriculum gave her sufficient science for the BS. Nevertheless, her research experiences arose from her psych classes and research opportunities outside her classes. She ended up going for a clinical doctorate (“PsyD”, as opposed to the more research oriented PhD), but she will still have to do research and of course a thesis. I think that for all doctoral programs, they want to see research experience from the undergrad years.