The Department of Psychology is one of the United Kingdom’s leading teaching and research establishments. We offer outstanding opportunities for study, and our BSc Psychology programme is of the highest quality. We are a research-intensive department where students are taught by researchers of international repute in well-equipped and attractive facilities. Our Psychology BSc degree course is fully accredited by the British Psychological Society, and so our students are eligible for the graduate basis for registration needed for a wide range of high level careers in psychology after graduation. Students can expect to be taught by world renowned researchers in their fields: in the most recent nationwide assessment of research quality (REF 2014) Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of York was ranked fourth for overall performance and second for the quality of our research papers. Our teaching is of the very highest quality: About 80 per cent of our students graduate with a first or upper second class degree.

We have designed our degree course to ensure you leave equipped with lots of very important transferable skills including team work, effective communication, critical thinking, numeracy, IT skills, problem solving and creativity. The Departmental Employability coordinator, runs a specialised programme of events and training sessions throughout the degree course to ensure you are well prepared for the world of work and to support you in developing the skills and experience you need to get the job you want after graduation. We support you to find placements, volunteering roles and paid work along side your academic work and encourage you to reflect on your academic and extra curricular activities through regular discussion of your Personal Employability Plan with your personal supervisor. We invite external speakers to give you a personal insight into a range of careers, support you to research your career options and provide interactive sessions to help you to prepare high quality CVs, job applications and to perform well in interviews. The department employability coordinator works closely with the University Careers Service, which also offers our students an additional range of career and recruitment events, skills sessions and one-to-one advice.