MSc Occupational Psychology - please help me out

I'm in the process of applying to Occupational Psych courses as well and have been applying to unis mainly in London. I started by looking up university rankings online and narrowed down my search based on that. A good idea is to also think about the size of the city/town you want to study in and the living costs. If you want to become chartered after doing the MSc you might also want to think about graduate opportunities and chances of finding a supervisor that you can work with for two years after you finish the post grad.

The universities that I applied for in the end are:

Birkbeck - great reputation, they offer evening classes and network learning which is easier to combine with working, part of University of London
City University - really good graduate employment rates, modern facilities, they have had several students win awards for their work in recent years, lectures are over two week days 9am-5pm
Goldsmiths' - great reputation, lectures are over two weekdays 9am-5pm

I also considered applying to these ones which from reading/hearing about them seem to have good reputations:

Gloucestershire
Leicester
Liverpool John Moores
Manchester
Nottingham
Sheffield

I recently applied to the BPS to have them assess my Australian undergrad degree and had no problems in getting the Graduate Basis for Registration. It only took a couple of weeks too for the to process the application.

Feel free to PM me as well if you want to talk further.

wow, I've lost all hope that anybody was in the same boat as me or was willing to offer some advice. thanks for writing! so you're from Australia? it's nice to know you had no problems with the BPS assessing your degree. I've sent my transcript and got an email on Friday saying that by the end of this week they will let me know if I qualify or not. when did you apply to psych programmes? did you get any news from the universities yet? Manchester would be my first choice mainly because I like the city and the uni has a good reputation, but I think I will apply to a few of the London ones just to hopefully increase my chances and options. I think I have more questions but I will wait and see first to hear what the BPS will decide. I'll probably pm you later this week.

I'm from Sweden originally, but I did my Honours degree in Australia. So now when I apply to a course in the UK I count as an EU student which means I pay Home student fees and not international fees.

After I got an e-mail saying the BPS were processing my application for GBC/GBR it took 1-2 weeks before I got a letter from them saying it had been approved. My applications were sent in during Nov-Dec last year and I had replies from all three within a couple of weeks in January.

I've had replies from all three unis I applied to. One gave me an unconditional offer and two offered me interviews. I've had another offer from one of the interviews and is having the second interview next week.

Hi all,
In the group session were you given a case study? And in the individual interview did they ask many occupational psychology based questions?

May I ask whether you are perusing the path to becoming an accredited Occupational Psychologist?

I hope to become an Occ Psy also, and was wondering whether you thought that there were greater opportunities in London for supervised practice post- Masters?

I also applied to Surrey and have been invited to interview. However, I am unsure how academically/ practice- oriented each of these institutions are and whether this makes a difference to the ways in which we seek supervised practice/ employment after we graduate.

(P.S. I noticed you had not written Surrey University under the list of universities outside London that were also rather good- can I ask why? It would be great if you could provide some sort of insight into that). And finally, why did you choose Birkbeck?- I am yet to hear from Birkbeck myself.

Hi Everyone,

Sorry to bump this up.

I have just graduated from my UG Psych degree from Kent and am looking at OP degrees, have applied to City, Surrey and Goldsmiths and am looking at some other London Unis, I hold an offer from Birbeck.

As you were posting in 2011, you will have hopefully (!) finished you degrees and be working, I was just wondering if you could tell me a little bit more about how you found your respective unis, both in terms of course and the uni itself?

Also, what are you doing now? Was the degree worth it etc etc

Thank you!

Hi,
I would also be really interested in reading any thoughts/insights about each of the uni's and their repective OP courses!
Thanks

Hi

Hopefully we will get a response soon!

Are you applying for sept 2013 entry or 14? If so, where have you/are you thinking of applying to?

I'm going into my 3rd year of undergrad this September, so i'll be applying for 2014 entry And i'm not sure about where yet, my options are open, so that's why i'd love to have some input.

Oh cool, well I have offers from Surrey, Goldsmiths and Birbeck and currently trying to decide where I want to go. Hopefully I will be able to provide more guidance once I am there

Hi,

It might be worth looking at the course structure as well, the modules they offer (Whether it's what you are expecting out of the course), the assessment methods (some unis are exams+coursework+dissertation). I am currently midway in Occupational Psychology at Nottingham University, when I had previously applied, I looked into Manchester, Sheffield, Wolverhampton, Leeds, Goldsmiths and Kingston. But I really wanted to get into Nottingham University. Also, might be worth looking at the employability stats if you have some thoughts of staying after and getting a job. A friend of mine is currently under the same school as I am (in Nottingham, its classed under the medicine school) but she didn't do a degree in Psychology beforehand, so she is doing Work Psychology (which is like occupational psychology but without a background in psychology), she does most of the module I am doing with some differences, she has the option to do some management modules and HR modules.