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About the Department

The Department of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario offers a comprehensive undergraduate program in general psychology. The Graduate Program in Psychology allows students to further pursue individual studies in seven areas of research excellence.

Graduate studies may involve experimentation in the laboratory, observation in a school, agency, or other setting, or clinical internships.

Facts and Figures (for 2010)

Faculty:
26 Full Professors, 21 Associate Professors, 9 Assistant Professors

Western Administered Research Expenditures:
$10,243,998; 166 Active Grants

Published Articles, Chapters, and Books:
175 with an additional 160 accepted for future publication

Departmental Staff
20 (Includes Administrative Officer, Technical Officer, Computing Manager, Program Advisor, Graduate Secretary, Clinical Secretary, Secretaries and Technicians).

Departmental Preschool Staff
Director, 6 teachers (full-time equivalent, includes Resource Teacher) and approx. 100 children.

Undergraduate Program:
Approximately 8,900 Undergraduate Course Registrants
Students in General Program - approx. 1300
Students in Honours Program - approx. 77
Number of Honours graduates in 2009 - 88
Number of Full-Courses Offered - 9
Number of Half-Courses Offered - 81

Graduate Program:
Total number of half courses offered - 20 (excluding practica)
PhD students currently enrolled - 79 (plus 11 Neuroscience PhD students with Psychology supervisors)
Students who graduated with a PhD degree in 2009 - 10 (includes one Neuroscience student with a Psychology supervisor)
MSc students currently enrolled - 35 (plus threee Neuroscience students with Psychology supervisors)
Students who graduated with an MSc degree - 25 (includes three Neuroscience students with Psychology supervisors)

For more detailed information on U.W.O. over the past ten years, please see the Western's Databook.