This is a conversion course. Conversion courses allow you to study a subject unrelated to your undergraduate degree or current career, and support you with a change of career path. No prior knowledge or degree in the subject is required.

Academic requirements:

Typically, you will need to have:

a 2:1 Honours degree or Merit at Masters level, or international equivalent, and
Maths at a level equivalent to at least a grade C/4 at GCSE, demonstrable with formal qualifications or professional/degree experience.
Other essential requirements:

You will also need to provide a personal statement that is relevant to your application. Please supply your statement as a PDF (500 words) and include the following questions as headings:

How has psychology played a role in your work or studies? (200 words)
How do you know that psychology is the right degree for you? (150 words)
What do you wish to achieve with your MSc in Psychology? (150 words)
Within your answers to the questions please give details of or explain:

Any courses/modules on psychological issues you have completed or any books that you have read on psychology that you have found particularly interesting,
Whether you have been involved in a psychologically informed or psychologically related role either in a paid or voluntary way (e.g. teaching, counselling, support work),
How you have observed the impact of or potential of psychology within that role,
And how you intend to use the knowledge of psychology in your future career.
English Language Requirements:
IELTS with an overall score of 7.0 with 6.5 in all subskills, or equivalent.

TOEFL (iBT) - At least 100 overall
International Baccalaureate English A: Language and Literature (first language)- HL 5 or SL 6