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Qualifications and durations
- Full-time MSc 12 months
- Part-time MSc 24 months
Overview
This successful BPS accredited programme, drawing on a multidisciplinary approach to health, covers the main areas of sickness and health psychology, as well as the methodologies for conducting research in primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare settings.
The course is recognised by the ESRC for 1+3 funding, and is one of the only accredited MSc Health Psychology programmes offering a placement. Units include: introduction to health and health beliefs; biopsychosocial mechanisms in health; health, communication and context; managing ill-health; health psychology in practice; research design and statistics in health; and a dissertation.
Academic entry requirements
- UK graduates will normally be expected to have been awarded a good honours degree in Psychology (upper second class or above) from a course recognised by the British Psychological Society (BPS) as providing Graduate Basis for Registration (GBR).
- Overseas students with equivalent qualifications MUST obtain GBR from the BPS.
- Some experience of working in health settings.
English requirements
IELTS 7.0 (with at least 7.0 in each of the four components).
TOEFL 600 (paper-based test) or 250 (computer-based test) with a score of not less than 4 in the TWE or 100 (internet-based test) with not less than 25 in each of the components.
Contact
Programme Administrator
Email psychology-pgt@bath.ac.uk
Tel +44 (0) 1225 383251
Fax +44 (0) 1225 386752
Web www.bath.ac.uk/psychology/study
Fees in 2008-9
FT MSc H £4000 O £10300
PT MSc H £2000 O £5150
Advice about part-time registration for overseas fee payers
Closing date: 30 June (of year of entry)