Master's and Specialist Degrees
The Winthrop School Psychology Program is primarily designed to prepare practitioners who are competent to provide a full range of school psychological services including consultation, behavioral intervention, psychoeducational assessment, research, program planning/evaluation and counseling. Students are prepared to work with diverse clients from infancy to young adulthood, including those with low-incidence disabilities, and with families, teachers and others in the schools and community.
This program only accepts applications once per year for the fall term.
Graduate Program Director:
Dr. Giancarlo Anselmo
anselmog@winthrop.edu
803/323-2635
After Graduation
100 percent employment rate in the field within three months of graduation over the past 10 years (many students had job offers before they graduated).
Accreditation
The combined M.S./S.S.P. program is fully approved by the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) and South Carolina Department of Education.
Quality Program
100 percent of students graduating over the past 20 years have passed the national Praxis examination in school psychology.
Our graduates go on to careers in a wide variety of school psychology fields. Here are some directions our students have gone in:
Public school districts
Charter schools
Private schools
National Defense Schools
Mental health, disability, and independent practice service settings