How competitive are the London Met psychology doctorates?

Well it is London Met....

So what is the supposed to mean more exactly?

Nothing

I'm serious. I wasn't 100% sure what you were emplying. Are you saying that they're not competitive because London Met doesn't have a very good rep?

London Met should be the least competitive university in the UK, as it generally resides at the very bottom of most league tables.

Yes but psychology doctorates are generally very very competitive. So considering that, do you still think that London Met doctorates are not very competitive?? I'm puzzled because this is a very competitive course at a very uncompetitive uni.....so would that make it a moderately competitive course to get on to?I wonder....

Yes but psychology doctorates are generally very very competitive. So considering that, do you still think that London Met doctorates are not very competitive?? I'm puzzled because this is a very competitive course at a very uncompetitive uni.....so would that make it a moderately competitive course to get on to?I wonder....

Hiya,

Doctorates don't follow the normal rules of competitiveness. London Met run the following psych Doctorates:

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Counselling Psychology
Health Psychology
Occupational Psychology

The above Doctorates entail self funding, they are not under government funding scheme like Clinical Psych and Educational Psych, which are extremely competitive, only 20% of applicants a year make it onto the clinical doctorate and 15% for Ed Psych. You have to have a minimum of a 2:1 and a few years relevant experience.

Although the above Doctorates are unfortunately not subject to government funded training schemes I believe they are still competitive, candidates are expected to have a 2:1 psych degree, in some cases such as Health they are expected to already have an MSc in Health Psychology, then candidates are required to have a period of relevant paid work experience. Despite the self-funding these jobs are desirable therefore places on the Doctorates are competitive.

I'm not sure if London Met being further down the league tables will make much difference, it tends to make far less difference at Doctoral level. For example the University of the East of London is at the bottom of the League tables but has a prestigious Postgraduate Psychology Department, that is one of the 10 uni's to run the Ed Psych Doctorate, they receive hundreds of applications for the 12 places they have as there is only 110 funded places nationally.

So at Doctorate level things are different. I would suggest looking on the British Psychological Society's website to gain further info on the various Psychologist career paths.

Good luck.

Hey,

I'm thinking of applying for the health psychology doctorate. I've just submitted applications to Staffordshire, UWE and I'm considering London Met as a potential option. I wanted to apply for City uni, but they don't seem to be accepting applications

Last year I sent a copy of my CV and expressed my interest in the London Met health psychology doctorate course and was immediately invited to an interview (which raised red flags for me!).

In short, I would say London Met is probably not that competitive, but I'm very reluctant to continue my application to London Met given the negativity surrounding the uni.

But, I do think in general, self funded psychology doctorates are considerably less competitive than other psychology doctorates such as clinical psychology!!

How come you've spent the last 12 years of your life in higher education?

Many reasons, but mainly to improve my employment prospects, stand out from the huge pool of psychology graduates and because I enjoy learning and developing new skills.

I have worked throughout my education to support myself. I haven't spent the last X amount of years just studying. I deliberately worked full time or part time to fund my courses and to develop relevant work experience.

Ahh nice. I thought you were one of those people who keeps piling on the postgrad courses to avoid having to work

Hi Elizabeth, I'm a third Year student (on track for a 2.1) with only my project left to do and am also planning on applying for the Clinical Psychology Doctorate. I have quite a bit of experience accumulated throughout my undergraduate studies both paid and voluntary within relevant fields so I am hoping that this will set me apart (somewhat) without having to work as a Psychology Assistant once I graduate (basically done loads of research work, worked in schools, prisons and currently in a hospital in clinical psych department) what kind of work experience have you got that is relevant to your application? I'm just wondering what my chances are and how much they would value my work experience over another applicant with a 1st class degree? I'm going to apply to UCL and UEL. Did you attend the London Met interview in the end? thx