Application Process

Now accepting applications for Fall 2024

We are still accepting applications for September 2024 start. Review of applications takes place during winter quarter for admission into the program for the following fall quarter.

All applications and application materials must come through Seattle University's Office of Graduate Admissions and the official online application process

  • A copy of the completed graduate application. 
  • An official, sealed transcript from each college and university you have attended, regardless of whether credits are posted on another school’s transcripts.  
  • An autobiographical essay of roughly 6 pages in length, double-spaced. Details on what this essay should address are described in the online application process.  
  • An academic writing sample such as an undergraduate paper. 
  • Three letters of recommendation. Your recommenders can submit these electronically.  If they submit them in hard copy format, your recommenders should seal and sign their envelopes, then post them directly to Graduate Admissions, 901 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA  98122.Do not send recommendation letters directly to the MAP program.   
  • Note: MAP does not use an official recommendation letter form.  
  • Applicants who pass the initial review process will be invited in for an in person, telephone, or online interview with a faculty member.  

*Note: Six prerequisite psychology courses must be completed before entering the program in the fall. If you have not yet completed all of these courses, you may still apply to the program as long as you outline a plan for completing them before the start of the program.  

 

 

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Master of Arts in Psychology

MAP Program Information
Harding 140
206.296.5400
eppsyc@seattleu.edu

SU Graduate Admissions
206.220.8010
grad-admissions@seattleu.edu