MEd教育心理学使其他学科的毕业生达到了心理学荣誉学位的学术标准，同时探索了如何将心理学的核心领域应用于教育环境。该课程说明了心理学的核心领域-发展，社会，认知，心理生物学，个体差异和研究方法-可以如何应用于教育环境。因此，对于希望从事教育心理学事业的个人来说，这是一个很好的起点。请注意，MEd没有资格让您成为教育心理学家。如果您想以教育心理学家的身份执业，则还需要完成教育和儿童心理学博士学位。
The MEd Psychology of Education has a long-standing reputation for excellence as a masters course that can be completed in one year full-time or across two years part-time. The course covers core areas of psychology specifically in relation to education. Students will develop critical skills in the evaluation and analysis of current research, theory and practice across education and psychology. The MEd can ignite or progress your career pathway within educational psychology helping you to target goals such as the Professional doctorate in Educational Psychology, a research career (for example through completion of a research PhD) as well as supporting careers targeting education and school based options The course has been designed to prepare students for careers involving psychology by providing a strong grounding in psychology as applied to educational contexts. You will: experience an ethos of independent and co-operative learning and research, develop critical skills in the evaluation and analysis of current research, theory and practice in psychology and education, gain eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartered Status from the British Psychological Society.