Palo Alto University,
celebrating its 40th years of success, was founded in 1975 under the
name Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. Established with the motto
“Engaging Minds, Improving Lives”, it is committed to improve lives of people
via education and research attached among psychology, clinical training and
practice among diversified cultures and services.
Palo Alto University is
a private, nonprofit educational institution and an independent professional
school, continuously being accredited by the Western Association of School and
Colleges since 1986. PGSP was later named Palo Alto University in August 2009.
Since then, it has been creating efficient leaders for the benefit of the
society.
Palo Alto University
offers several undergraduate and graduate programs. It offers programs on
business psychology, science, clinical psychology and social action. It also
offers Ph.D. and Psy.D. training programs. It facilitates three types of
learning offering: Traditional Classroom Offering, Hybrid Offering
(Night/Weekend Classes) and Online Offering. These offerings are not available
for every program or degree types.
In order to join PAU,
one must have completed their previous academic programs and secured pre
mentioned amount of score. Only then, a student can be enrolled in the Palo
Alto University after further successful processing.
Palo Alto has received
numerous remunerations. The 2013, 2014 and 2015 Higher Education Excellence in
Diversity (HEED) award was given to PAU from ‘INSIGHT into Diversity magazine’.
Palo Alto received this award on the basis of its notable diversity and
inclusion initiatives, and its ability to clinch diversity of gender, ethnicity,
veterans, race, people with disabilities and member of LGBT community.
Palo Alto University
has several international collaborations. Pacific Graduate School of Psychology
(PGSP) and the Stanford University School of Medicine partnered in 2002, with
the objective of creating a practitioner-scholar training program for students graduated in clinical psychology, grounded in
evidence-based practice. PGSP-StanfordPsy. D. Consortium students are fully
registered at Palo Alto University. They attend a 50% Stanford affiliated Psy.
D. Program. They have access to certain resources and training programs at each
of the two institutions.
PAU supports local,
clinical practicum training in China and Latin America for students
participating in PAU’s online M.A. Counseling Program. It also has
collaborations with Palo Alto Medical Center, the Department of Veterans
Affairs and other mental health care organizations. Palo Alto sponsors numerous
academic centers working for child mental health, internet-based global
healthcare and evidence based care for LGBTQ client. PAU is also developing
programs to assist genocide survivors in Rwanda. So, Palo Alto University is
not only providing quality education, it is also developing and helping the
society, community and the nation as a whole.
With a reasonable
amount of graduate rate, Paulo Alto is dedicated to education and development
with primary emphasis in the behavioral and social sciences. It aims in
promoting future innovators and leaders for the welfare and benefit of the
society. It foresees to generate knowledge through research and scholarship of
the highest level. This is all in order to provide services to the community well-versed
by science and scholarship.