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To participate in this Master’s programme you need:
 

1. An academic Bachelor’s degree. Our International Students Admission’s office will verify whether a non-Dutch academic degree is equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree at a Dutch research university. All international Bachelor’s degrees are evaluated based on standards set by . If your degree is assessed as less than equivalent to a 3-year Dutch research ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ degree, or as a bachelor from a university of applied sciences, you are most likely not eligible for admission. 
    
2. Specific academic knowledge and skills required to participate in this programme. You can find these requirements in this document. Please read this information carefully.
   
   In general, this means that you need a Bachelor’s degree in psychology with a clinical orientation and you must have passed courses in classical test theory, psychopathology, psychological assessment, multivariate statistics and you have written a quantitative Bachelor’s thesis. Please note that if you lack knowledge and skills in one or more of these areas, you cannot be admitted.
   
   Other Bachelor’s degrees than psychology, but with similar orientations, will also be assessed by the Admissions Committee on the basis of the requested academic knowledge and skills. However, previous experience has shown that it is difficult for students without a degree in psychology to meet the entry requirements for this Master’s programme. If your degree does not meet the criteria as specified above, you are most likely not eligible.
   
   Please note: an online assessment may be a mandatory part of the evaluation of the methods and statistics criterion. For more information please consult the document above.
    
3. Sufficient command of the English language (see below).

The selection procedure consists of two steps.

Step 1:

The Admissions Committee evaluates your eligibility based on your knowledge and skills. Candidates who will meet this requirement before the start of the Master’s programme will proceed to step 2. Candidates will be notified of the Admissions Committee's decision.

Step 2:

Based on the documents you submitted, the Admissions Committee will rank all candidates based on:

• Their weighted average grade (at the time of the application).
• Their suitability to the programme based on the answers given in the suitability profile (see required documents). The questions concern personal professional development and the essence of being a scientist-practitioner. All questions will be scored on a combination of relevance, scientificity, clarity and persuasiveness.

Both criteria have the same weight.

The top 50 candidates will be selected for the programme. For all other candidates – except the bottom 50 –selection will be based on drawing. The top 150 candidates who are not selected, will be placed on a waiting list. The bottom 50 candidates will not participate in the drawing and will only be placed on a waiting list if they belong to the best 150 candidates who are not selected. The position on the waiting list will be based on the ranking. All candidates who are not selected and are not placed on the waiting list, will be rejected.

All candidates will be informed about the decision before 1 June. Selected candidates have two weeks to accept their place in the programme. Replacement from the waiting list is possible until 31 August.

Please make sure you have alternative plans (e.g. you have applied for another Master’s programme) in case you are not selected to the programme. Last year we received more than 700 admissible applications for our 150 available places.

This Master's programme is selective and does not offer a pre-Master's programme for students who do not meet the entry requirements. 

However, if you meet all entry requirements, including the writing of a quantitative research thesis, but lack more advanced experience with multivariate statistics, you may be able to acquire this via a Summer School course. This is for the Admissions Committee to decide. It is not possible to acquire any other knowledge or skill this way.

The following documents must be uploaded before the deadline:

• A scan of your diploma or Proof of anticipated degree in English, Dutch, French, German or Spanish. If your documents are in another language, you also need to arrange official translations.
• Transcripts of Records (including courses taken, grades obtained and GPA) in English, Dutch, French, German or Spanish. If your documents are in another language, you also need to arrange official translations.
• Certified copies of your diploma and transcript (after admission).
• An overview of courses yet to be completed (when you have not yet obtained your diploma).
• Curriculum vitae / resume
• Passport copy
• A scan of your official English language test report or certificate (this may also be submitted at a later stage if admitted).
• Checklist Entry Requirements and syllabi of all the courses you list on this Checklist. These syllabi must be written in English or Dutch. If they are not available in one of these languages, please upload the original syllabi and include a (self-written) clear and comprehensive English summary.
• Suitability Profile Clinical Psychology form
• A copy of your quantitative Bachelor’s thesis or similar research report. When you have not yet completed your thesis, submit a statement that states the proposed title, research question and methods.

After submitting your application to Studielink, you will receive an email with login details for OSIRIS Online Application. Here you can upload all required documents, check the status of your application and pay your application fee.

After you upload all documents in OSIRIS, International Student Admissions will verify them and send them to the Graduate School for evaluation.

The Admissions Committee of the Graduate School will check whether you have sent in all the required documents and your application is indeed complete. If so, you will receive notification that your file will be evaluated by the Admissions Committee. You can expect a decision within twenty working days after you receive this notification. In December this may take a little longer because of the Christmas Break.