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To be accepted to this Master’s programme you need:
 

1. An academic Bachelor’s degree with specific academic knowledge and skills. You can find these requirements in this document
    
2. Sufficient command of the English language. As a graduate from a Dutch research university you have fulfilled this language requirement. 

With the Bachelor’s degrees listed below you meet the required knowledge and skills. Any other Bachelor’s degrees with similar orientations will be assessed by the Admissions Committee on the basis of the requested academic knowledge and skills.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ:

• Psychology.

• Liberal Arts and Sciences, with a specialisation in Social, Health and Organisational Psychology.
• Interdisciplinary Social Science, Sociology or Pedagogical Sciences including a quantitative Bachelor’s thesis and three advanced courses in psychology (20 ECTS). Examples of advanced courses: Social Cognition, Interpersonal Processes, Self-regulation, Science of Happiness, Power and Leadership, Work Psychology, Organisational Psychology, Making Diversity Work: Building Inclusive Organisations, Psychology and Economic Behaviour. If you have taken other courses, it is up to the Admissions Committee to decide if these courses are sufficient.
• ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ College Utrecht degree with a major in Social Sciences, including: Introduction to Psychology, Research in Practice, Applied Multivariate Statistics, a quantitative Bachelor’s thesis, and three advanced courses in psychology (level 3, 20 ECTS). Examples of advanced courses are: Health Psychology, Psychology of Human Motivation, Psychology of Ethnic Relations.

Other Dutch research universities

• Psychology, including a quantitative Bachelor's thesis.

Unsure if you qualify for admission?

In order to properly assess whether you qualify for admission, it is important that we have the right information. It is therefore necessary that you apply through the regular admission procedure and submit the required documents. The Admissions Committee will look into your qualifications for admission and you will receive notification in the form of a letter of (non-, conditional or unconditional) acceptance.

There is no general pre-Master’s programme.

However, in some cases you may be able to do a short tailor-made pre-Master’s programme or a Summer School course to acquire knowledge or skills you currently do not have. This is for the Admissions Committee to decide.

In order to be considered for a pre-Master’s programme/Summer School course you need to have most required knowledge and skills. Only more advanced knowledge concerning psychology at the exit level of the Bachelor’s degree (via pre-Master’s programme) and/or multivariate statistics (possible via a Summer School course) can in some cases be acquired in this way.  It is not possible to do a pre-Master’s or Summer School to acquire any other required knowledge or skill.

Please always apply for the Master’s programme first. If the Admissions Committee determines that you do not meet all entry requirements, they will decide if you are eligible for a pre-Master’s and, if so, what your pre-Master’s programme will look like.

Please note: a pre-Master's Programme is only available for students with a Dutch educational background who do not need housing, and who do not have or require a residence permit for study purposes. In addition, the language of instruction might be in Dutch.

The following documents must be uploaded before the deadline:

• Diploma or DUO extract (if graduated)
• Transcript from OSIRIS (for Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ students) or certified transcript (for students from other Dutch research universities).
  A certified transcript must include courses, grades and a stamp/signature of the institute.
• An overview of courses yet to be completed (when you have not yet obtained your diploma)
• Motivation statement in English
• Curriculum vitae / resume in English
• Checklist Entry Requirements and syllabi of all the courses you list on this Checklist. (Not required for all. Please check the form for details).
• A copy of your quantitative Bachelor’s thesis or similar research report. When you have not yet completed your thesis, submit your research design including your research question, short theoretical framework and methods of research. This is not required for psychology students from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ.