The University of Maryland based in College Park, MD offers a fully funded PhD in Psychology. Students are accepted into the following specialty areas: Clinical (CLIN), Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS), Counseling (COUN), Developmental (DEV), Social, Decision, and Organizational Science (SDOS). The Department expects each doctoral candidate to be conversant in the field of psychology as well as an expert in his or her specialty area. All admitted Ph.D. students are given assistance in the form of a fellowship or graduate assistantship for the first 5 years, which includes tuition remission of up to 10 credits per semester.