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How to become a psychologist with the open university

Would an undergraduate pyschology degree with the open university, then the conversion pyschology masters degree since the undergraduate degree isn’t recognised with the open uni and a phd in pyschology be ok?
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Original post by Anonymous
Would an undergraduate pyschology degree with the open university, then the conversion pyschology masters degree since the undergraduate degree isn’t recognised with the open uni and a phd in pyschology be ok?

Why isnt the undergrad bps accredited? It was when i did it, and the link following suggests you can do a bps course with them (https://www.open.ac.uk/courses/psychology/degrees/bsc-psychology-q07).

I definitely would not do an undergrad which isnt accredited as it is a waste of time if you are sure you want to be a Psychologist.

Regarding your question about being a Psychologist, what type do you mean? There are practitioner Psychologists (Educational, Counselling and Clinical) and there are Psychologists which work in research. The routes are very different, if it is a Practitioner Psychologist it is a doctorate not PhD.

Greg
(edited 4 months ago)
Reply 2
Original post by greg tony
Why isnt the undergrad bps accredited? It was when i did it, and the link following suggests you can do a bps course with them (https://www.open.ac.uk/courses/psychology/degrees/bsc-psychology-q07).
I definitely would not do an undergrad which isnt accredited as it is a waste of time if you are sure you want to be a Psychologist.
Regarding your question about being a Psychologist, what type do you mean? There are practitioner Psychologists (Educational, Counselling and Clinical) and there are Psychologists which work in research. The routes are very different, if it is a Practitioner Psychologist it is a doctorate not PhD.
Greg

Clinical psychologist. What undergraduate degree would you recommend instead? I was going to do a conversion pyschology masters after which Apparantly makes the pyschology degree accredited but I would be able to do any undergraduate course
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Original post by greg tony
Why isnt the undergrad bps accredited? It was when i did it, and the link following suggests you can do a bps course with them (https://www.open.ac.uk/courses/psychology/degrees/bsc-psychology-q07).
I definitely would not do an undergrad which isnt accredited as it is a waste of time if you are sure you want to be a Psychologist.
Regarding your question about being a Psychologist, what type do you mean? There are practitioner Psychologists (Educational, Counselling and Clinical) and there are Psychologists which work in research. The routes are very different, if it is a Practitioner Psychologist it is a doctorate not PhD.
Greg

Oh. It’s saying it’s accredited now. It wasn’t saying that before when I was looking

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