Bachelor of Psychological Science

Deakin's Bachelor of Psychological Science is APAC-accredited, which matters because it's the first step of the standard Australian pathway into registration as a psychologist: students who want to go further typically follow it with Deakin's own fourth-year honours and then a master's or provisional registration pathway, and Deakin markets the degree explicitly around that multi-year trajectory rather than as a terminal qualification.

The course covers the core content APAC requires (biological bases of behaviour, cognition, social psychology, developmental psychology, research methods and statistics) with a heavier-than-average statistics and research methods load in the final year, reflecting the discipline's accreditation requirements. Deakin also runs the degree online through its Cloud Campus alongside on-campus delivery at Burwood and Geelong, which is less common for a laboratory/research-methods-heavy science degree and requires the university to run virtual practical and statistics tutorials at scale.