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So, I have a BPS accredited psychology degree with honours and am wanting to get a MSc. I am going to have to do online study because of my full time work but i am struggling to find a course that is BPS accredited.
I have found a MSc Conversion course but obviously I have already studied psychology - would it still be worth my time doing the course or not at all?
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Original post by Jhrutter
So, I have a BPS accredited psychology degree with honours and am wanting to get a MSc. I am going to have to do online study because of my full time work but i am struggling to find a course that is BPS accredited.
I have found a MSc Conversion course but obviously I have already studied psychology - would it still be worth my time doing the course or not at all?

You dont need an accredited masters (these are only for graduates with a BPS accredited undergrad). So just pick courses that interest you. A conversion masters would be a complete waste of your time and money.

Greg
Clinical Psychologist
(edited 2 months ago)
Original post by Jhrutter
So, I have a BPS accredited psychology degree with honours and am wanting to get a MSc. I am going to have to do online study because of my full time work but i am struggling to find a course that is BPS accredited.
I have found a MSc Conversion course but obviously I have already studied psychology - would it still be worth my time doing the course or not at all?


You do not need to do a conversion MSc as they are specifically for people who have an undergraduate that is not in Psychology to get them BPS Graduate Basis for Membership - you already have this with your BPS accredited undergraduate.

If you want to do a Masters, you would be looking at specialising; if you ultimately want to become a chartered psychologist, then this will need to be BPS accredited level 1 and will be in your desired strand (eg. Clinical Psychology, Educational Psychology, Sports Psychology, etc). The BPS website has a list of accredited courses, but the course pages of a course will also state if it is level 1 accredited.

If you aren’t looking to become a Chartered Psychologist, then you can be far more free with your Masters and just pick what interests you - just don’t make the mistake of relearning what you already know by doing a MSc Psychology (conversion)!
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Original post by greg tony
You dont need an accredited masters (these are only for graduates with a BPS accredited undergrad). So just pick courses that interest you. A conversion masters would be a complete waste of your time and money.
Greg
Clinical Psychologist


Is there any online masters that are student finance funded that you can recommend? Thank you for your response
Original post by Jhrutter
So, I have a BPS accredited psychology degree with honours and am wanting to get a MSc. I am going to have to do online study because of my full time work but i am struggling to find a course that is BPS accredited.
I have found a MSc Conversion course but obviously I have already studied psychology - would it still be worth my time doing the course or not at all?

@Jhrutter
There is a lot of excellent advice on here already. It does depend on what area of Psychology you want to go into, an MSc Psychology (conversion) is not the right course for you - I did one, mine was at Arden University and they have the best virtual learning environment I have come across working in F.E/H.E for over 10 years. If you wanted to do an MSc in Business Psychology then they have a program for that

https://arden.ac.uk/our-courses/postgraduate/masters/msc-business-psychology?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=DL_Search_MScPsychologyUK-BMM

For clinical or educational psychology it would be a different route of course

Marc
Arden University Student Ambassador

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