1996-97 Insert to Graduate Study Survey Table 4

Doctoral Programs

Program Area	Acceptance Rates				Enrollment Rates
Program Area	Median	Q1	Q3	N	Median	Q1	Q3	N
Clinical	0.06	0.04	0.14	160	0.71	0.57	1	159
Counseling	0.09	0.06	0.17	61	0.85	0.69	1	58
School	0.27	0.17	0.41	45	0.75	0.54	0.89	45
Cognitive	0.22	0.14	0.34	71	0.5	0.36	1	70
Developmental	0.17	0.09	0.31	85	0.7	0.33	1	79
Educational	0.5	0.33	0.63	19	0.75	0.5	1	19
Experimental	0.12	0	0.57	9	0.76	0.57	1	50
General/Social/ Personality	0.11	0.07	0.2	82	0.5	0.38	1	73
Industrial/ Organizational	0.14	0.07	0.29	41	0.61	0.41	0.77	42
Physiological/ Neurosciences/ Biological/ Comparative	0.18	0.08	0.29	64	0.6	0.4	1	60
Psychometrics/ Quantitative	0.33	0.13	0.5	27	0.6	0.31	1	21
Other Programs	0.18	0.12	0.4	68	0.75	0.56	1	64
All Programs	0.13	0.08	0.24	285	0.7	0.53	0.93	284

Program Area	Acceptance Rates				Enrollment Rates
Program Area	Median	Q1	Q3	N	Median	Q1	Q3	N
Clinical	0.41	.026	0.61	69	0.61	046	0.81	70
Counseling	0.5	0.28	0.74	62	0.77	0.6	0.91	60
School	0.43	0.24	0.65	57	0.78	0.63	0.94	56
Cognitive	a	a	a	a	a	a	a	7
Developmental	0.5	0.4	0.72	15	0.56	0.32	1	14
Educational	0.54	0.35	0.73	12	0.74	0.44	1	12
Experimental	0.53	0.27	0.7	34	0.66	0.45	0.8	32
General/Social/ Personality	0.41	0.25	0.64	38	0.71	0.44	0.9	38
Industrial/ Organizational	0.41	0.18	0.75	37	0.64	0.4	0.89	36
Physiological/ Neurosciences/ Biological/ Comparative	a	a	a	7	a	a	a	7
Psychometrics/ Quantitative	a	a	a	8	a	a	a	5
Other Programs	0.51	0.32	0.75	55	0.68	0.5	0.92	54
All Programs	0.45	0.29	0.65	210	0.68	0.5	0.87	205

SOURCE: 1996-97 Insert to Graduate Study Survey, Research Office, APA. June 1998.

Note: Acceptance rates are ratios of acceptances to applicants, while enrollment rates are ratios of enrollments to acceptances.

a = Summary statistics are not reported when N of departments is less than 10.