MSc Business Psychology
- Entry year
- 2024/25
- Course code
- C81512
- Application
- University
- Level
- Postgraduate
- School
- School of Social Sciences
- Campus
- Frenchay
- Duration
- One year
- Delivery
- Full-time; starts September
- Programme leader
- Dr Ben Steeden
Please note there are no vacancies on this course for September 2024.
Please note we are no longer offering this course from September 2025. If you would like information about our alternative course, please visit the MSc Business and Organisational Psychology course page.
Page last updated 23 September 2024
Introduction
Study a cross-subject degree that applies psychology to real-world business problems within organisations. Solve challenges in psychology and business, such as communication, employee motivation and talent recruitment. Our blocked teaching delivery enables you to study flexibly alongside your work.
Accreditations and partnerships:
An organisation is only as good as the people working within it. Business psychology is crucial in understanding how teams work and what motivates employees. Many organisations hire business psychologists to solve challenges in psychology and business, from communication to talent recruitment.
Not only does applying psychology to the workplace produce better leaders and teams, it improves business decisions too. Business psychology is a growing market, addressing a business need for more effective workplace cultures.
Skills-based, solution-focused
Accredited by the Association for Business Psychology (ABP) our MSc Business Psychology uses a skills-based, solution-focused approach that applies evidence to practice. To date, we're one of the only universities in the region to deliver a master's degree in business psychology.
Find solutions to the biggest issues facing organisations today. You'll apply psychology to real-world business problems, such as employee motivation, performance and wellbeing. So you'll gain tangible skills relevant to your workplace.
Blend psychology and business
Study a cross-subject course that draws on experts in the fields of psychology and business. You'll gain a broad range of expertise that blends these two worlds, from human resource management to occupational and organisational psychology.
Whatever your career aspirations are, you'll benefit from our local and national industry links within the business hub of Bristol and beyond. Strengthen your professional network by connecting with academic communities like the Bristol Leadership and Change Centre.
Advance your career
Whether you're a professional or recent graduate, the course will offer you a flexible and open career route. If you're already employed, you'll be able to study flexibly alongside your work, thanks to our blocked teaching delivery. You'll be trained as a qualified business psychologist, ready to practice in a range of organisational settings.
Structure
Content
You'll study:
- Business Basics for Psychologists
- Business Psychology Essentials
- Coaching and Mentoring (Business Psychology)
- Dissertation in Psychology
- Leadership and Change Management
- Learning, Training and Development
- Researching Organisations
- Wellbeing at Work.
The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved we'll inform you.
Learning and Teaching
The course is delivered through flexible distributed learning, enabling you to work alongside your master's degree. Throughout your studies, you'll be taught via a blend of face-to-face and online lectures. Most of the course content is taught online, ensuring your learning is technology-enabled and future-focused.
All face-to-face teaching is delivered in blocks, comprising of two day-long workshops per 15 credit module. If you're employed during your studies, you'll benefit from being able to book off blocks of time from work.
Develop integrated expertise across business and psychology. You'll gain broad knowledge in a range of subject areas, integrating organisational and occupational psychology with organisational studies, human resource management, coaching and leadership.
To participate in the programme, students should expect to:
- Actively participate in group discussions, both online and face-to-face.
- Deliver presentations on their work and learning to their peers.
- Read and critically evaluate scientific and practitioner literature.
- Generate original ideas to translate theory into practice.
- Build evidence-based arguments.
- Engage with the learner and practitioner community.
- Produce evidence-based, critical written reports.
See our full glossary of learning and teaching terms.
Assessment
Throughout the course, you'll develop the key competencies needed to practice as a professional business psychologist. Your assessments will test these competencies, as well as your ability to use your skills in an applied, practice-oriented way.
Due to the evidence-based nature of the course, assessments have been designed to ensure you'll get confident applying evidence to practice. In each assessment, you'll learn to use psychological theory to solve real-world business problems, whether in case studies or reflective practice.
You'll be assessed using a range of methods, including consultancy pitches, workplace evaluations, wellbeing assessments and coaching skills. So you'll apply your expertise to practical tools used by experienced business psychologists working within organisations.
See our full glossary of assessment terms.