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The School of Psychology offers psychology endorsements in postgraduate arts, science and health science qualifications.
More details about our postgraduate programmes are available in our prospectus
Psychology Postgraduate Prospectus 2020 (783 KB)
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If you have a degree in a subject other than psychology, you can take a graduate diploma to progress to postgraduate studies. All courses in your graduate diploma must be in psychology.
A postgraduate diploma is a postgraduate qualification equivalent to the first year of master's study. It comprises coursework but no research thesis.
An honours degree is made up of courses and a research project.
However, you don't have to specialise, and can select your courses from the full range of 700-level courses.
A master's degree is made up of courses and a research project.
However, you don't have to specialise, and can select your courses from the full range of 700-level courses.
Specialised postgraduate diplomas allow you to study a specialisation within psychology.
The PhD is an advanced research degree.
The DClinPsych qualifies you as a clinical psychologist.
Clinical_Programme_Manual_2019.pdf (2,619 KB)
A full range of information about doctoral study, including application processes, governance and the Doctoral Web Book can be found at Higher research degrees at Massey.