Psychology

Overview

Key features

Study Psychology course at the University of Leicester and you will benefit from a flexible degree course accredited by the British Psychological Society and taught by leading academics.

You’ll have the opportunity to conduct your own psychological research in our state-of-the art facilities including the £42 million George Davies Centre. You will also have the option to study abroad for a year in The Netherlands, or opt for a placement year in industry to further develop your employability and life skills.

You will study topics in developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, social psychology, biological psychology, research methods and statistics, psychopathology and individual differences, and historical developments of psychological science, as well as having the flexibility to take modules in cognitive neuroscience and applied psychology. You will learn through lectures, seminars, discussion groups and practical projects carried out in one of our many specialist laboratories.

Why Leicester?

• All of our degrees are British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited, providing you with necessary skills and knowledge to help you to progress in your future career.
• We have excellent, state-of-the-art facilities to enhance your learning experience, including labs for visual perception and tracking eye movement, a virtual reality lab for studying spatial cognition, a Judgement and Decision Making Lab and EEG labs for measuring electrical response in the brain.
• The academic staff in the department have written or edited dozens of books and publish regularly in major national and international journals. Where other people only get to read what our experts think, you will be working directly with them, learning from them in lectures and questioning them in seminars.
• You will definitely want to join the Students' Union's Psychology Society, which offers a great mix of academic support and social events.