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    N 1st-Yr Full-Time Students   N 1st-Yr Full-Time Students   Percent Change   N 1st-Yr Full-Time Students   Percent Change   N 1st-Yr Full-Time Students   Percent Change   N 1st-Yr Full-Time Students   Percent Change
    1974-75   1979-80   1974
vs
1979
  1987-88   1979
vs
1987
  1991-92   1987
vs
1991
  1996-97   1991
vs
1996
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Health Service Provider Fields
                                   
Clinical   1,036   1,109   +7.0   1,939   +74.8   2,095   +8.0   2,219   +5.9
Counseling   442   388   -12.2   372   -4.1   401   +7.8   518   +29.2
School   136   171   +25.7   182   +6.4   256   +40.7   304   +18.8
Subtotal   1,614   1,668   +3.3   2,493   +49.5   2,752   +10.4   3,041   +10.5
                                     
Research Fields                                    
Cognitive   92   86   -6.5   184   +113.0   209   +13.6   191   -8.6
Developmental   266   227   -14.7   218   -3.9   238   +9.2   239   +0.4
Educational   253   170   -32.8   75   -55.8   108   +44.0   70   -35.2
Experimental   392   270   -31.1   242   -10.3   264   +9.1   198   -25.0
General, Social, or
     Personality
  282   233   -17.4   219   +6.4   305   +39.3   212   -30.5
Industrial/Organizational   132   125   -5.3   201   +60.8   249   +23.9   209   -16.1
Physiological,
     Neuroscience,
     Biological, or
     Comparative
  201   128   -36.3   204   +59.4   194   -4.9   163   -16.0
Psychometrics or
     Quantitative
  80   53   -33.8   46   -13.2   49   +6.5   43   -12.2
Other   343   360   +5.0   263   -27.0   323   +22.8   359   +11.1
Subtotal   2,041   1,652   -19.1   1,652   --   1,939   +17.4   1,684   -13.2
Total   4,191   3,558   -15.1   4,156   +16.8   4,754   +14.4   4,828   +1.6

SOURCE: Survey of Graduate Departments of Psychology and Insert to Graduate Study Survey, Research Office, APA, and Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology: 1974-75, 1979-80, 1987-88, and 1996-97. Compiled June 1998.

Note: Included in the totals are students whose subfields were not reported.


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