As the representative body for the student affiliates of the American Psychological Society (APS), the APS Student Caucus (APSSC) is committed to the goals of APS, which are: to advance the discipline of psychology, preserve the scientific base of psychology, promote public awareness of psychological science and its applications, encourage the giving away of psychology in public service, and to enhance the quality of education of the science of psychology.  APSSC is a service organization founded to act as a forum for graduate and undergraduate student issues, as a voice for students in APS policy decisions, and as a national networking and information resource.

APSSC develops programs, which are aimed at meeting the needs of both students and APS as a whole.  Specific program goals are to promote student research, provide opportunities for contact between students and psychologist in the field, to make policy recommendations to APS about student concerns, to assist in students’ professional development through activities such as arranging funding for travel to conferences, to promote extracurricular participation via local chapters of the national student organization, and provide information about the educational and scientific opportunities available to students.