The Ph.D in Rehabilitation program at the Rehabilitation Institute has a long tradition as a student-centered research program. While there are opportunities to pursue additional clinical training through our program, historically, students have been encouraged to focus on enhancing their ability to conduct independent scholarly research.

SIUC is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a Doctoral/Research University--Extensive (the highest category).
The Rehabilitation Institute at SIUC is a multi-faceted educational unit that consists of four distinct graduate training programs: Behavior Analysis and Therapy, Rehabilitation Administration, Rehabilitation Counseling, and Communications Disorders and Sciences. Each program admits and supervises its own doctoral students and students choose a faculty advisor/dissertation chair from within the faculty of one of these programs.

Each graduate training program at the Rehabilitation Institute has its own strengths, history, and areas of specialization, but all of our programs are recognized as leaders in their specific areas of focus. Our programs in Behavior Analysis and Therapy, Rehabilitation Administration and Services, and Rehabilitation Counselor Training are among oldest and most respected programs in the United States. Two of our programs were the “first of their kind.”

The Rehabilitation Institute continues to be unique in that it is the largest program of its kind with the largest complement of Rehabilitation faculty members in the world.