Psychology – Bachelor of Science

Psychology is a growing and ever-changing subject which helps us make sense of the human impact on the world in which we live.

You'll learn how people perceive, learn, think, develop, behave, and relate to one another. Courses will teach you how the structure of the brain affects our behaviour, what makes people different from one another and how being in groups affects people's behaviour. Finally, you'll learn how factors like culture, gender, poverty, and mental illness affect our health, our thinking, and our behaviour.

Market leading in New Zealand

Massey graduates more clinical psychologists than any other university in New Zealand. Our research and teaching is unique and recognised nationally and internationally. This strength and expertise means your learning will be relevant to today’s jobs and societies and your degree will have a great reputation.

Applied learning

During your degree, you can take part in our broad selection of courses across areas including forensic, experimental and community psychology that demonstrates how foundational skills can be applied.

Topics

Some of the topics taught in psychology courses include:

• abnormal and therapeutic psychology
• bicultural perspectives in psychology
• brain and behaviour
• community psychology
• evolution, learning and culture
• memory and cognition
• organisational psychology
• social psychology.