With more than 30 academic degree programs and seven metropolitan locations around the nation and online, you can earn your degree at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology without putting other life commitments on hold.

Committed to Education, Innovation, Service, and Community

The Chicago School will help you achieve significant and lasting change as a leader in various professional fields. The school’s innovative Engaged-Professional Model of education takes you beyond the classroom and into the actual communities that need your help. Interacting with people who experience the issues you’re trying to solve shows you the impact of your education. These real-world applications provide opportunities to implement and evaluate evidence-based principles, hone your professional skills, and function as a powerful agent of change in a supervised setting.

Our small but diverse class sizes, hands-on training experiences, and collaborative learning relationships will help you grow into a multiculturally and proficient professional who approaches practice and scholarship as an innovator, transformer, and problem-solver.

Hands-On Experience

The Chicago School offers an unparalleled range of inspiring and enriching hands-on training.

Options include working or volunteering as a mentor, advocate, or program assistant at local agencies and organizations to address community needs while gaining career-relevant experience. Together, our students provide more than 1.2 million hours of high-impact service work in local and international areas every year.

Gain firsthand insight into the social, political, and psychological issues impacting a particular country or region and the challenges confronting international psychologists through our one-of-a-kind study abroad and international field experiences.

A Launchpad for Your Career

As a graduate of The Chicago School, you will have developed the skills needed to pursue a career serving underrepresented communities who need the support of professionals like you. Our alumni work throughout the world in hospitals, schools, community centers, agencies, NGOs, private practices, and anywhere else that needs their help.

Your experience as a student blending sophisticated understandings of the human experience with high-quality practice in the field prepares you for a career in psychology, business, counseling, health care, and health services.

In Their Own Words

Alumna Niki Terranova, Psy.D., LPC, is a staff psychologist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in part because of the training she received at The Chicago School.

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