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MSc Psychologie: Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience at TU Dresden

TU Dresden, Germany

Programme overview

Master programme in psychology with a cognitive-affective neuroscience focus, offering a broad range of neuroscience approaches to analysing human behaviour and experience.

Faculty: Faculty of Psychology  |  Duration: 4 semesters (2 years) full-time  |  Study mode: full-time; German-taught  |  Intake: winter semester  |  Location: Dresden, Sachsen, Germany

What you will study

Modules cover cognitive neuroscience, psychobiology, developmental neuroscience across the lifespan and neurobiology, going beyond Bachelor level in central approaches, theories and findings.

Career pathways

Research and teaching in psychology, cognitive science and neuroscience, plus work in life-sciences companies such as pharmaceuticals.

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Application information

Entry requirements

A first professional degree recognised in Germany from a degree of at least six semesters in psychology or a comparable programme at a university in which special subject knowledge was acquired; English at level B2; proof of special knowledge under the aptitude assessment regulations, through an aptitude assessment and selection procedure. Numerus clausus: yes (restricted admission). Application deadlines for the first subject semester (German applicants and Bildungsinländer): Application period: 1 June – 15 July. International applicants: Application period non-EU applicants: 1 April – 31 May; Application period EU applicants: 1 April – 15 July. Application is made online through the TU Dresden application portal.

Intake: winter semester

Duration: 4 semesters (2 years) full-time

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