Course Overview

The BSc Psychology with Education degree enables you to develop your knowledge and broaden your skillset to support you in pursuing a wide range of future careers. Throughout your studies, you will have various opportunities to strengthen your CV through academic enrichment and co-curricular activities, such as volunteering in local communities or attending regular specialised workshops.

Through the degree’s placement module you will have gained practical experience of working within an educational context, and have reflected upon how psychology can be applied to education.

Many of our students also choose to pursue further study at postgraduate level. Graduates with this degree have pursued a wide range of careers related to teaching, youth work, educational or clinical psychology, counselling, social work and beyond.

General Eligibility

A-level: AAB in one or more of: psychology, geography, mathematics, chemistry, biology, physics, geology, economics, statistics, environmental science or computing.

A-levels in critical thinking, citizenship studies and general studies do not typically form part of our offer but we welcome them as a fourth A-level.

In general we expect applicants to have two ‘traditional’ academic subjects at A-level. See our accepted subjects document to see which subjects we accept.

The Extended Project is welcomed but is not included as part of our offer. We do not accept any vocational qualifications.

GCSE: English language at grade 4/C and mathematics at grade 5/B. Plus one of the following at grade 5/B: physics, biology, chemistry, science or additional science. We also accept GCSEDA science (dual award) at grades 5-4/BC.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• IELTS (International English Language Testing System) Academic or IELTS for UKVI (United Kingdom Visas and Immigration) (Academic) or IELTS Online at 6.0 overall with no less than 5.5 in each component skill. Please note that we cannot accept results from these tests that are over two years old at the start date of the course you intend to study.

  TOEFL iBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-Based Test) or TOEFL iBT Home Edition at 80 overall with no less than 17 in listening, 18 in reading, 20 in speaking, and 19 in writing. Please note that we do not accept TOEFL My Best scores and we expect candidates to have met the relevant requirements from a single TOEFL test.