[luke24]

Hey, i just finished my a level exams and am wondering if i have chosen the right uni course for next year. At the moment i have a conditional offer from marjon for the early childhood education course as i am considering going into teaching or something related. However, it has been on my mind for a while now that i may want to study psychology as i have taken it at a level and really enjoyed it.
I know this is really late in the day to change my decision but is the BSc psychology course any good and what career prospects are there?
Thank you for any comments!!!! :-)

[Jackkkkk]

(Original post by luke24)
Hey, i just finished my a level exams and am wondering if i have chosen the right uni course for next year. At the moment i have a conditional offer from marjon for the early childhood education course as i am considering going into teaching or something related. However, it has been on my mind for a while now that i may want to study psychology as i have taken it at a level and really enjoyed it.
I know this is really late in the day to change my decision but is the BSc psychology course any good and what career prospects are there?
Thank you for any comments!!!! :-)

With psychology most will say if it's BPS accredited your fine but in reality it really does depend where you study the subject if your looking to actually do further degrees to become a 'psychologist'. If not many career paths are available such as advertising, teaching, market analysis etc

What subjects did you take ? And what sort of grades are you expecting ?

If not I know Someone who went to marjohn an loved it !!!



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[luke24]

I took psychology (expecting a B), geography (expecting a C), photography (expecting a C) and general studies (expecting a C). I just really enjoy psychology and might aswell play to my strengths.
I was thinking possibly along the lines of education psychology or criminal psychology...will have to research more. The courses i have been looking at are BPS accredited.

[iammichealjackson]

(Original post by luke24)
I took psychology (expecting a B), geography (expecting a C), photography (expecting a C) and general studies (expecting a C). I just really enjoy psychology and might aswell play to my strengths.
I was thinking possibly along the lines of education psychology or criminal psychology...will have to research more. The courses i have been looking at are BPS accredited.

Very few people go onto psychology jobs from a psychology degree (http://www.prospects.ac.uk/options_p...r_skills.htm)- although you can do something related to a psychology degree (i.e. its not like engineering/sciences where you can pretty much walk into a related job). Becoming a forensic psychologist or educational psychologist is also pretty hard (for educational you need two years of teaching experience plus a 2.1 and above plus extra qaulifications), so you've got to be motivated after graduating. But it is possible, and worth thinking about if you really do want to go down that path!

[luke24]

Thank you for your comments. I will defo. think long and hard when i get my results! Thankzzz

[littleone271]

(Original post by luke24)
Thank you for your comments. I will defo. think long and hard when i get my results! Thankzzz

If you're thinking of going into criminal psychology then make sure you do your research before applying to anything with criminology in the title because criminology and criminal psychology are very different. I did a unit of criminology as part of my forensic science course at college and it was really quite boring and very sociological rather than psychological. You need to decide whether you like criminology or not basically.

I only found 2 universities in the south east that offer psychology with criminal behaviour and for me it was kinda between those two because I didn't really like the sound of forensic psychology as much. The 2 universities are southampton solent and bedfordshire and I chose bedfordshire because it's a better location with much better facilities.

If you did educational psychology then I guess you could keep your options open in terms of the teaching career possibilities. You need to check that the course is BSc rather than BA and that it's BPS accredited which most of them seem to be. Also take into account that psychology is a very popular degree so if you have any idea the area of it you'd like to go into then it's probably best to specialise early by doing educational psychology for instance. When applying for certain jobs it could work in your favour if up against a candidate with just a general psychology degree while still keeping your options open for masters degrees.