College of Social Sciences

The College of Social Sciences (CSS) offers MA and PhD hybrid, online and campus-based programs that provide students with hands-on experience and mentoring from faculty who are active and experienced in their respective disciplines.  Recognized as one of the world’s leading institutions for humanistic scholarship and education, the College of Social Sciences is focused on helping students develop the insight and expertise that is necessary to serve both local and global communities. 

Based upon Saybrook’s mission, the College of Social Sciences provides rigorous graduate education that inspires transformational change in individuals, organizations, and communities, toward a just, humane, and sustainable world. Students and faculty, across degree programs and specializations, engage in critical dialogue, self-reflection, discovery, research and practice in pursuit of co-creating communities based in relationship.

The College of Social Sciences (CSS) is comprised of four departments. Although distinct and independent, the intellectual boundaries of the departments allow various opportunities for cross-disciplinary inquiry.

• Department of Counseling
• Department of Humanistic and Clinical Psychology
• Department of Leadership and Management
• Department of Transformative Social Change