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Future Students

As part of the College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, we are committed to advancing the scientific discipline of psychology through original research and undergraduate and graduate education. So whether your aim is to sample some of the best research being done in modern psychology or to enter into the exciting world of working as a psychologist, by enrolling with us in a degree program that's both scientifically rigorous and socially relevant you've come to the right place! (more about psychology...)

Interested in Studying in the School of Psychology?

If you're interested in enrolling in a Psychology course or program, take a look at the list of undergraduate courses.

About the School of Psychology

At the School of Psychology we do four main things :

1. Undergraduate training in the science of psychology
2. Professional postgraduate training in clinical psychology (Master of Clinical Psych, Doctor of Psychology (Clinical), PhD in Clinical Psychology) which includes psychological services through the ANU Psychology Clinic
3. Postgraduate research supervision (PhD and MPhil: includes applied social and organisational psychology)
4. Scientific research on psychology

A qualification in Psychology may also enable you to join an international Psychological society. See information about overseas recognition of qualifications for further details.

Why ANU?

Some things that make us different from some other Australian psychology departments :

• We are a leading research centre in three areas :
  1. social psychology,
  2. the connection between cognitive psychology and perception and
  3. the connection between clinical psychology and health
• Despite having an excellent research reputation, in terms of student numbers we are a small department compared to psychology departments at the other research intensive universities (we have 40 fourth year students; one other (large) department has 160).
• Our courses are different to anything else you'll find in an Australian undergraduate Psychology degree.
• We select our Honours students on the basis of their performance in psychology courses at the University level (not on the basis of how they did at School).
• We devote a lot of resources to small group teaching compared to those in most other Universities, all of our small group classes from 1st year to 3rd year have a maximum size of 20 students per class.
• We take a high proportion of both internal and external applicants into our fourth year program.
• Our small size and high quality of our staff means that we can do things that a lot of other departments cannot (e.g. Special Topics courses, field trips to Kioloa, summer research scholarships.