Psychology (Hons) University of Derby

Overview

Our Psychology (Hons) degree from the University of Derby is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) and has been successfully running online for more than ten years. It is one of our most popular and established online degrees.

Key Facts

Completing an accredited Psychology degree is an essential first step to becoming a qualified psychologist in the UK and will enable you to gain Graduate Basis for Chartership (GBC). If your interests lay outside a career as a qualified psychologist, you will find that our programme provides knowledge and transferable skills that will aide you in your current workplace, or in pursuit of alternative career pathways, such as the health and social care and education sectors.

• A long-established online British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited Psychology degree with excellent student satisfaction

• One-year free student membership of the BPS giving you access to their network, resources and discounted events

• Choice of optional modules allowing you to tailor your studies to your personal interests

• A research-informed programme design featuring research-led teaching

• Options to engage regularly your academics and wider support teams

Careers

If you want to become a chartered or practitioner psychologist, you will need to undertake further postgraduate training following this course (for further information refer to the BPS website). Many postgraduate Psychology courses require Graduate Basis for Chartership (GBC) for entry; you can obtained GBC by completing this online BSc (Hons) Psychology degree.

If you are looking to pursue a career in psychology, but aren’t sure which route to take, the online BSc (Hons) Psychology can offer an introduction to several of the core pathways in psychology including health, forensic, sport and exercise, clinical and educational psychology.

If you’re more interested in psychology as a subject and are not pursuing a career as a psychologist, or you live outside of the UK where the requirements to become a psychologist are slightly different, then this programme can still be valuable due to the development of transferable and psychology specific skills. Upon completing this degree, you may be eligible to apply for psychology-aligned roles such as psychology well-being practitioners and assistant psychologist roles or you may wish to apply your learning to roles in health and social care, education, management or administration and other sectors.

During the course, we regularly feature guest speakers who highlight their experiences working in different settings, such as psychology well-being practitioners, senior cognitive behavioural therapists, practitioner psychologists, data analysts and psychologists in training.