Introduction:

What you’ll study

In the first two years of your degree, you’ll complete an introduction to psychology and counselling with core modules in biological, social, developmental and cognitive psychology, counselling techniques and tools, and you’ll undertake training in research methods and statistics.

In your final year, you’ll sit a further core module in psychology and counselling, and can select specialist final year modules linked to the areas of staff research expertise within Psychology. In your final year you’ll also complete a research project in psychology, focused on a topic of your choosing under the supervision of a research-active member of staff.

Four-year placement course

You also have the option of choosing to complete a four-year course that includes a year-long work placement in between Year Two and Year Three. You must apply with the UCAS code C809 to be considered for the four-year sandwich or placement course.

Careers and employability

Our BSc (Hons) Psychology with Counselling course is designed to help you develop all the knowledge and skills that you’ll need for your future career. The course will develop your transferable skills, including:

• numerical skills (including statistical analysis)
• analytical skills and critical thinking
• communication skills
• presentation skills
• problem-solving skills.

Highly sought after by employers, these skills will put you in a strong position in the graduate market.

Excellent work experience opportunities

You’ll get the opportunity to participate in our Personal and Professional Development module. This module encompasses personal reflective exercises to help you develop self-awareness and group activities to enable you to appreciate the importance of the way groups might work within a professional setting. You will also have the opportunity to gain further experience and skills relevant to employability with a work-based practice element.

If you have applied for the four-year sandwich course, you will complete a year-long work placement.

Your career development

With the British Psychological Society’s GBC secured (provided you graduate with a 2.2 honours degree), you will be eligible on graduation to pursue further postgraduate (Masters of Doctoral) training in psychology, possibly as a professional psychologist (in forensic, clinical, educational, occupational, counselling, and sport psychology), to pursue an academic and / or research career in various areas of psychology (by working as a research assistant, for example, or by studying for a Masters or PhD), or simply to exploit the transferable skills you have learned on your course to pursue a career outside of psychology.

Psychology qualifications tend to be very popular with all employers because they demand an ability to communicate effectively in both spoken and written forms (through verbal presentation and the writing of essays and reports), an ability to solve real-world problems, and well-developed numerical skills. This all means you will be well placed to capitalise on other graduate employment opportunities in areas as diverse as marketing, human resources, policing and teaching. Further study or training may be required for some of these roles.

Entry requirements

Three years full-time

• A-levels – ABB; or
• BTEC Extended Diploma – DDM; or
• 128 UCAS Tariff points from three A-levels or equivalent qualifications; and
• GCSEs – English and Maths grade C / 4.

We also consider equivalent qualifications and combinations.

Four-year placement

• A-levels – AAB; or
• BTEC Extended Diploma – DDD; or
• 136 UCAS Tariff points from three A-levels or equivalent qualifications; and
• GCSEs – English and Maths grade C / 4.

We also consider equivalent qualifications and combinations.

Three-year and four-year routes

It is preferable that students do not have more than one A-level in a performance, artistic or creative subject. However, all applications will be considered on an individual basis. Performance, artistic or creative subjects include the following:

• Art and Design
• Dance
• Design and Technology – Food Technology
• Design and Technology – Product Design
• Design and Technology – Systems and Control
• Drama
• Theatre Studies
• Fine Art
• Graphic Design
• Leisure Studies
• Performance Studies
• Performing Arts
• Photography
• Textiles
• Three Dimensional Design or similar
• Applied Art and Design
• Applied Art and Design (Double Award)
• Applied Leisure Studies
• Applied Leisure Studies (Double Award).

Psychology is about understanding behaviour, in all its forms. Primarily you will have an interest in psychology – in why people behave in the way they do. Psychology at Nottingham Trent University is treated as both a biological and social science, and it is preferable that you have some understanding of the broad nature of the discipline. Ideally, you will be interested in learning about out how to carry out research and analyse data.

Please note that a Disclosure and Barring Service check (formerly known as a Criminal Records Bureau disclosure) will be necessary before working with young people or vulnerable populations, but it is not required for admission onto the BSc (Hons) Psychology or the course pathways.

Fees and funding

International fees for 2022 entry onto a full-time undergraduate course are:

• £15,600, or
• £16,200 (for courses in the Nottingham School of Art & Design and Nottingham Business School).

Tuition fees are payable for each year that you are at University. Tuition fees for the second and subsequent years of your undergraduate course may increase in line with inflation and as specified by the UK government.

If you choose to do a work placement as part of the undergraduate course the fee for the work placement will be £1,385.

Late Applications

If you missed the UCAS January deadline, it’s not too late to apply to join us in September 2022.

Applying to university after the January deadline isn’t anything to worry about – we accept applications for most of our undergraduate courses until Thursday 30 June 2022.