At Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, PhD in Clinical Psychology is offered as a doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme. The programme runs for 5 years, delivered on campus. Tuition for international students is CAD 7,338 per year (CAD 7,338 per year for local students).
The Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology is an entry-to-practice doctoral program delivered in person, full-time, at Dalhousie's Halifax campus, with standard completion of five years or longer. It follows a scientist-practitioner model that combines required and elective coursework, supervised thesis research, and clinical field placements, and includes a mandatory one-year clinical residency or internship near the end of the program. Students admitted through the accelerated pathway move from the MSc into the Clinical PhD without writing a separate master's thesis, concentrating instead on the doctoral research and clinical training sequence from the outset. The program is accredited by the Canadian Psychological Association and expects students to contribute original empirical, methodological, or theoretical work as part of their doctoral research. The dual emphasis on research and supervised clinical practice prepares graduates for careers as either researchers or practising clinicians, or a combination of both. The program suits students with strong research backgrounds who are seeking a doctorate that leads to professional clinical registration alongside an active research trajectory, rather than a purely academic or purely clinical credential.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: A Bachelor's Honours degree is the normal entry point, though applicants who already hold a Master's degree may be granted advanced placement; the Psychology and Neuroscience admission page asks for a GPA at or above the program's minimum without publishing a numeric figure or scale. International applicants and other non-native English speakers must meet a program-specific language requirement of TOEFL iBT 92 or IELTS Academic 7.0 overall. Further detail on the application process, deadlines and supplementary materials is published on the Clinical Psychology program's own website rather than on this admission-requirements page.
Application Details
Start Date:September
Application Deadline:Dalhousie's live Dates and Deadlines page still shows the September 2026 entry cycle as of mid-September 2026, not the 2027 cycle. For that cycle, Bachelor of Science (Nursing), Bachelor of Health Sciences, Bachelor of Science (Medical Sciences) and Bachelor of Social Work close February 15, 2026; the Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies (Architecture) closes March 1, 2026; and the Health Sciences post-diploma option closes June 15, 2026. All other undergraduate programmes are considered on a rolling, space-available basis for both domestic and international applicants, with no separate international closing date published; May 15, 2026 is only the deposit and English-proficiency deadline, not an application deadline. Dalhousie has not yet published September 2027 entry dates. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
