UndergraduatePsychology
Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours)
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
About this program
This is Swinburne's APAC-accredited fourth year, the honours qualification students need after an accredited three-year psychology degree if they want to move on to provisional registration and postgraduate training in clinical, organisational or sports psychology, or into psychology research more broadly. Entry is genuinely competitive rather than automatic: Swinburne requires a Distinction average (70%) across third-year core psychology units and at least credit-level results across second and third-year core and major units, with only one unit exception allowed, a real filter rather than a formality.
At 100 credit points it's a single intensive year built around an accredited research thesis alongside advanced coursework, and because the year functions as the gateway into every specialist psychology career path (clinical, forensic, organisational, sport and exercise), Swinburne treats it less as a general capstone and more as a professional screening year.
Graduates who complete it are positioned for the 4+2 or 4+1+1 postgraduate/supervised practice pathways toward psychologist registration with AHPRA, or direct entry into competitive APAC-accredited master's and doctoral programs.
Fees & duration
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Course structure
Study plan in 5 parts
- advanced research methods and statistics
- psychological assessment
- advanced topics across clinical
- organisational
- developmental and cognitive psychology
- Honours research thesis
- supervised
- conducted across the year
- Entry requirement: Distinction average (70%) in third-year core psychology units
- credit or higher in second- and third-year core/major units (maximum one exception)
- APAC-accredited sequence
- required for progression to postgraduate psychology training and eventual AHPRA registration
- 100credit points
- one year full-time
Career & PR pathway
Which careers in Psychology lead to skilled migration depends on the occupation, not the degree title. See the skilled occupation lists guide for which occupations are on each list, and the points calculator to check where you stand.
Admissions
ATAR ~70+ (or equivalent Year 12)
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