Why choose SOPP?
The SOPP is among the first university-based professional school programs to be founded in the country and has been in existence for over 25 years. Being university based, the SOPP has the academic supports and facilities available in a modern university. It has been fully accredited at the highest level of accreditation since its early days and recently received the maximum reaccreditation of seven years from the APA Committee on Accreditation.
A program with...
High retention and graduation rates (95%)
High internship acceptance rates (nearly 100% compared to 68% nationally)
High licensure exam passage rates (92% on 1st try, close to 100% overall)
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We recently received the results of internship match rates by doctoral program over a seven-year period from 2000–2006 supplied by APPIC. The overall match rate was 74.9% nationally. The SOPP's rate was 93.2% which ranked number one among US professional schools of psychology and in the top 25 among all U.S. clinical psychology doctoral programs.
Over ½ of our faculty hold board certification from the prestigious American Board of Professional Psychology.
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The SOPP has a reputation for community service.
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95% of our graduates report being pleased with their training at SOPP and 95% are satisfied with their chosen field.
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Nearly 100% of our graduates are employed!
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The SOPP is one of the few programs in the country that has both an APA-accredited internship program as well as a postdoctoral residency training program to go with its predoctoral program. Nationally 20% of students did not match when they applied for internship this past year, 100% of SOPP students got internship placements.
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