M.Phil in Psychology

The post-graduate course of Psychology Sardar Patel University was started in1981 with a view to provide specialized and training teaching in the discipline of Psychology for students coming with rural background. It had 7 students to begin with, with Dr.J.C.Parikh, as its only teacher. In 1982, Dr.J.B.Patel joined the Department, and, Dr.M.M. Patel and Dr.Pramod Kumar followed it in 1983. With added faculty strength the Department started providing specialization in Industrial/Organization and Abnormal/Clinical areas along with option for Dissertation at the post-graduate level. In 1994, the Department introduced one year M.Phil programme in Psychology, the only Department in the state of Gujarat to provide such a programme in Psychology. The Department also started providing facilities for doctoral research, mainly in applied area, in the following years.