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BSc Psychology at Osnabrück University

Osnabrück University, Germany

Programme overview

The Bachelor's degree program in psychology includes extensive methodological training (research methods, statistics and data analysis), training in the basic areas, including perception and memory processes, learning and emotions as well as the biopsychological foundations of human behavior and experience. Furthermore, questions of personality and the development of individuals in different cultures and age groups as well as the behavior and attitudes of groups are examined.

Faculty: School of Human Sciences  |  Department: Institute of Psychology  |  Duration: 6 semesters (3 years)  |  Study mode: full-time; German-taught  |  Intake: winter semester  |  Location: Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Germany

What you will study

Other areas taught in the Bachelor's degree course are diagnostic methods and the applied subjects of disorders, general psychotherapy procedures, preventative and rehabilitative concepts of psychotherapeutic action as well as the basics of educational psychology and work and organizational psychology. The research internship and work-related internships as well as the Bachelor's thesis are also important elements of the course.

Career pathways

This course leads to a first professional qualification and qualifies students for routine psychological tasks, for example in the field of clinical diagnostics and occupational aptitude diagnostics, the design and evaluation of work equipment and activities and their organization as well as for health or personnel psychological interventions.

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Entry requirements

Admission: admission restricted Numerus Clausus. The German Higher Education Entrance Qualification (Abitur) entitles students to commence a first degree qualification at Osnabrück University. Information about the conditions that apply for people seeking to embark on an undergraduate degree without the higher education entrance qualification may be found at Studying without Abitur. Applicants in possession of international certification must demonstrate sufficient levels of German Language Proficiency. This program is subject to admission restrictions. General information on selection procedures is available under the link How Places are Awarded. For an overview of the numerus clausus in previous years, please see the link Selection Restrictions. For admission to the Bachelor of Psychology degree program, the result of a study aptitude test of the German Psychological Society can be taken into account. You must have English language skills at level B2 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). This proof is deemed to have been provided if English was achieved at level B2 (CEFR) when acquiring the university entrance qualification or English was the language of the education system at the time the higher education entrance qualification was obtained or a language test at level B2 (CEFR) has been successfully completed. Further information on the access requirements can be found in the selection regulations for the Bachelor's degree program in Psychology.

Intake: winter semester

Duration: 6 semesters (3 years)

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