Psychology

Our Psychology BSc will introduce you to the psychological sciences and help you to explore their application to a variety of contemporary challenges. The course is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), who have highlighted areas of particular strength in our course, including the emphasis on research-led teaching, our modules for developing employability skills, and the wide range of discipline-specific opportunities, placements and internships that are available for students at the world-leading Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN).

The BSc degree is available as a 3-year option or a 4-year option (with placement year or study-abroad year). The admissions criteria are identical for the 3-year and 4-year BSc programmes. You will decide about joining, and apply to, the 4-year programmes in your second year of study, should you wish. If you are a Home student it does not matter which UCAS code you apply through, and please only apply to one. The different course codes are useful for those of you who are applying from overseas. If you have international fee status and think you might want to stay for 4-years, please use a 4-year code so that you have the correct visa from the start of your degree.

Key benefits

• Our course offers a rich combination of modules across psychological disciplines with a research method strand throughout to prepare students for conducting their own research. Our teaching is delivered by a dedicated teaching team including several award-winning educators.

• Students will be taught by world experts with a curriculum enriched by current research at the IoPPN, which is one of the world’s leading centres for interdisciplinary research in psychiatry and psychology. The Department of Psychology is one of the best-known and largest centres for clinical and health psychology in the UK.

• We have unique partnerships with the South London & Maudsley Hospital (SLaM) and clinician-scientists that allow placements and voluntary work for our students.

• This is an innovative programme into which interactive teaching opportunities have been integrated throughout all years of the programme.

• We have a robust personal tutoring system, which has been commended by the BPS. Each student is allocated a personal tutor who supports them across their programme, providing pastoral support and practical skills training across several timetabled sessions each year.

• King’s provides extensive Student Services available to support our students, which ranges from supporting their wellbeing and mental health, to accommodation and financial advice.

• Students have the opportunity to join a four-year course by completing a year’s professional placement or a year abroad. This opportunity is subject to achieving a certain grade average and being accepted at a partner institution.

Please see our online prospectus for further details on this programme: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/undergraduate