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Accelerated ABA Admissions
°Â¾±³Ù³óÌýa letter of recommendation from an ABA faculty member, declared undergraduate Psychology majors may apply for the Accelerated Program. Applications should include a personal statement describing the student’s interest in pursuing graduate training in behavior analysis.
Applicants must have at least a 3.5 GPA and have taken the three courses below receiving a B or better:
- PSYCH 311 Advanced Experimental: Learning and Behavior Analysis
- PSYCH 251 Intro to Learning and Behavior Analysis
- PSYCH 372 Autism Practicum OR 374 Culturally Responsive Family Support Practicum
All accelerated students must complete 12 graduate course credits as described below in their last undergraduate year. Students who maintain at least a 3.0 GPA with a B or better in each of those graduate courses and fulfill the remaining requirements of their undergraduate degree will be accepted into the master’s program in applied behavior analysis for the following fall. Students must then complete the remaining 28 graduate credits according to the schedule above, including a 6-credit thesis project.
| Semester | Course Number | Credits | Modality | Course Name |
| Undergrad Fall | 73001 | 3 | OM | Theory & Method in ABA I |
| Undergrad Fall | 73005 | 3 | OS | Research Methods in Behavior Analysis |
| Undergrad Fall | 750 | 1 | OS, HS | Research Methods in Behavior Analysis Lab |
| Undergrad Spring | 73002 | 3 | OM | Applied Behavior Analysis: Theory II History and Philosophy of Behaviorism and Behavior Analysis |
| Undergrad Spring | 73006 | 2 | OM | ABA Measurement and Applied Project |
| Year 1 or 2 Summer | 754 | 3 | OM | Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) |
| Year 1 or 2 Summer | 744 | 3 | OM | Skill Building |
| Year 1 Fall | 730 | 3 | OM | Psychology of Learning |
| Year 1 Fall | 795 | 3 | OS | ABA Thesis Preparation/Writing |
| Year 1 Fall | 72002 | 3 | OS | DD II: Functional Assessment |
| Year 1 Fall | 7913 | 3 | OM | MA Thesis Research |
| Year 1 Spring | 751* | 1 | OS, P | ABA Measurement and Applied Project Lab |
| Year 1 Spring | 7913 | 3 | OM | MA Thesis Research |
| Year 1 Spring | 7713 | 3 | OS | Ethical Issues in Psychology |
| Year 1 Spring | 737 | 3 | OM | Applications of Behavior Analysis |
FELLOWSHIP: Accelerated undergraduate students may also apply to work professionally at ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ Autism Center for Evidence-Based Services (QC-ACES) or one of our off-campus fellowship sites to accrue supervised experience in Behavior Analysis.
To Apply: Log into the  using your QC username and passwordÌý(, not CUNYfirst) to submit an application. Please remember to upload your letter of recommendation, personal statement, and transcript. For assistance with the application, email gso@qc.cuny.edu.
To learn more about the Master’s in Applied Behavior Analysis, see the department’s website or email sally.izquierdo@qc.cuny.edu.