The following is only a short list of why you should seriously consider applying to George Mason University for graduate study in applied developmental psychology:

• The program's explicit focus on Applied Developmental Psychology ensures that students who leave here are well trained not only to conduct cutting edge research in developmental psychology, but also to apply their knowledge to the facilitation of optimal human development.
• The program has a focus on early and middle childhood with faculty who specialize in many domains within early childhood, including socioemotional development, cognitive development, language development, and behavioral development.
• The program offers excellent, individualized research mentoring experiences with faculty engaged in active and often externally-funded research programs.
• Competitive financial aid/fellowship support packages are available with endless opportunities for additional external support.
• The department is sufficiently large (around 40 full-time, tenure track faculty) to ensure high quality mentorship, research, and teaching opportunities without being so large that you would feel like a number or a part going through a factory.
• The faculty in the developmental program (and throughout the department) are all well-respected researchers, scholars, and teachers in their subspecialties.
• The Washington, DC metropolitan area provides wonderful opportunities for research funding, practicum placement, cultural events, recreational events, and collaboration with other universities.
• The Consortium of Washington Metropolitan Area Universities of which GMU is a part, provides excellent opportunities for collaboration, library research, interdisciplinary work, and cross-campus coursework.
• GMU is a short metro and/or car ride to all the major federal funding agencies for behavioral and applied developmental research (NSF, NIMH, NICHD, NIH, U.S. Deptartment of Education, Head Start, and others).
• The weather is great - all four seasons with none of them too harsh.
• GMU has been, and is continuing to, experience incredible and sustainable growth in terms of both resources and its reputation as a major research university. (It is better to go with a rising star than one that is falling).
• Multiple opportunities exist for students to get training in other disciplines as well, including school psychology and neuroscience.
• GMU is truly a multicultural campus in an ethnically rich and wonderfully diverse community.
• GMU is a national leader for the innovative and intergrated use of technology across campus. Computer and other technological resources at GMU are excellent.
• GMU offers a variety of different graduate programs to fit your particular career goals, including the MA degree in Child Development, the Ph.D. degree in Applied Developmental Psychology, the MA degree in School Psychology, and the MA degree in biopsychology.
• Our ADP program has an excellent social climate - where the students and faculty get along well and support each other.
  

• Email me at awinsler@gmu.edu  or give me a call at (703) 993-1881.
• Request that written information about our department and/or program(s) be sent to you, by sending an email to grad-psychology@gmu.edu or calling (703) 993-1342 - Ext. 2.
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