Psychology
University of Roehampton
UCAS Code: C800 | Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
University of Roehampton
UCAS Code: C800 | Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
Entry requirements
T Level
UCAS Tariff
GCSE requirement:Maths, Grade C or grade 4
About this course
**Why this course?**
- Professional development and work experience built into your degree.
- Top 10 in London for student satisfaction in Psychology (NSS 2024)
- At least 50% of your teaching will be in seminars, lab classes or workshops, giving you personalised teaching and contact time with your lecturers.
**About this course:**
Learn how to solve real-world problems by understanding the human mind, and gain the skills and professional experience you need to stand out.
You’ll learn core and contemporary subjects within psychology and have the opportunity to shape your degree around your own interests and ambitions. Topics include:
- mental health
- developmental psychology
- positive psychology and wellbeing
- social psychology.
You’ll study contemporary social movements and global crises, such as Black Lives Matter, climate change and #MeToo, through a psychological lens.
**Skills:**
Develop your professional skills as you study real-life applications of psychology.
We offer an inspiring undergraduate curriculum, with a focus on mental health, that reflects the world we live in today. During your time with us, you’ll explore:
- how to solve real-world problems with your knowledge of our minds and behaviour
- research and analysis, and how to effectively communicate
- leadership, emotional intelligence, interpersonal skills and how group dynamics relate to the workplace and wider society.
You’ll work on core subjects within psychology and have the opportunity to shape your degree around your own interests and ambitions.
Right from the start, you’ll explore the fascinating careers open to psychology graduates and learn how to apply your knowledge to different fields. You’ll also take a credited work experience module in Year 2, enabling you to build your CV before you graduate.
**Career opportunities:**
As a BSc Psychology graduate, you’ll have the skills and experience you need to succeed in many different careers, from counselling and clinical psychology to data analytics and marketing. You’ll also be ready to continue on to postgraduate study at Roehampton or elsewhere.
**Teaching designed around you**
At Roehampton, we want to provide you with the flexibility you need while you study, and the contact time to help you succeed. We schedule our teaching across no more than three days each week. Plus, we'll confirm which days these are well in advance of the start of term, so you can plan ahead.
So, if you want to have more focused personal study time, a part-time job, need to balance family commitments, or want to reduce the time you spend commuting, we’re the ideal choice for you.
**Student support available 24/7**
At Roehampton, student support is available 7 days a week.
Our committed academic staff will support, help and guide you throughout your studies and help you prepare for your future career. We also offer study, wellbeing and careers support on-campus and online, so you can get the help you need when you want it.
We offer a wide range of scholarships and bursaries. We also provide other ways to support the cost of living, including free buses and on-campus car parking, hardship support and some of the most affordable student accommodation and catering in London. Find out more about how we can support you.
Modules
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Tuition fees
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Extra funding
We offer a wide range of scholarships for UK undergraduates, including:
- The Roehampton Bursary is worth £1,000 for the first year of our undergraduate degree programmes*. It will be awarded automatically to students in receipt of a full maintenance loan, to help with costs such as travel and accommodation.
- Academic Excellence Scholarships worth: £3,000 over the course of a degree for students with the equivalent of AAA or above (144+ tariff) at A-level (or equivalent tariff in other qualifications, e.g. BTEC) and £2,000 over the course of a degree for students with the equivalent of AAB at A-level (136-143 tariff) (or equivalent tariff in other qualifications, e.g. BTEC)
- esports scholarships, worth £2,000 per year of the degree, available to students who demonstrate aptitude in esports.
- Music and Sports Scholarships, available to students who demonstrate excellence in music or sports
- Care leaver bursaries, worth £2,000 per year of study to Care Leavers enrolling on Undergraduate programmes at Roehampton, for up to four years of study.
Find out more: https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/home-undergraduate/funding-and-scholarships/
What students say
We've crunched the numbers to see if the overall teaching satisfaction score here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.
How do students rate their degree experience?
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After graduation
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What are graduates doing after six months?
This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.
Top job areas of graduates
20 years ago, this was a specialist degree for would-be psychologists but now it is the model of a modern, flexible degree subject. One of the UK's fastest-growing subject at degree level, and the second most popular subject overall (it recently overtook business studies), one in 23 of all graduates last year had psychology degrees. As you'd expect with figures like that, jobs in psychology itself are incredibly competitive, so to stand a chance of securing one, you need to get a postgraduate qualification (probably a doctorate in most fields, especially clinical psychology) and some relevant work experience. But even though there are so many psychology graduates — far more than there are jobs in psychology, and over 13,800 in total last year — this degree has a lower unemployment rate than average because its grads are so flexible and well-regarded by business and other industries across the economy. Everywhere there are good jobs in the UK economy, you'll find psychology graduates - and it's hardly surprising as the course helps you gain a mix of good people skills and excellent number and data handling skills. A psychology degree ticks most employers' boxes — but we'd suggest you don't drop your maths modules.
What about your long term prospects?
Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.
Psychology (non-specific)
The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.
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Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.
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