UndergraduatePsychology
Bachelor of Psychological Science
Deakin University, Melbourne/Geelong, VIC, Australia
About this program
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.
Fees & duration
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Course structure
Study plan in 3 parts
- Year 1: Introduction to Psychology
- Biological Psychology
- Research Methods 1
- Lifespan Development
- Year 2: Cognitive Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Research Methods and Statistics 2
- Personality and Individual Differences
- Year 3: Abnormal Psychology
- Research Methods and Statistics 3
- Psychological Assessment
- Advanced elective and research project unit
Career & PR pathway
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Admissions
Year 12 completion or equivalent; ATAR as per current guide
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