Your future begins in Siegen
The subject of psychology is the description and explanation of human behavior and experience. To this end, psychology investigates the internal and external causes of human behavior in order to derive general laws that extend across the entire lifespan and to determine individual differences. As an empirical science, it consists of both natural science and humanities and social science components.
The Bachelor's degree course in Psychology at the University of Siegen offers a broad foundation course consisting of methodological training (empirical-scientific work, statistics, diagnostics, experimental psychology internship), the basic area (general psychology, biological psychology, developmental psychology, differential psychology, social psychology), the application area (clinical psychology, work psychology, organizational psychology and educational psychology), a work-related internship and the Bachelor's thesis. The content is based on the criteria of the "Quality Seal B.Sc. Psychology" of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs).
In addition, the Bachelor's degree program covers the content in accordance with the PsychThApprO.
Everything at a glance
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Start of studies
Winter semester -
Standard period of study
6 semesters -
Admission restricted
Yes, application required, aptitude test -
Language of instruction
German
Career prospects
For most professional fields within psychology, a Bachelor's degree in psychology is not a sufficient qualification. Only a consecutive Master's degree opens up many career opportunities. Master's graduates currently have very good opportunities on the job market. They can work in various, constantly growing professional fields:
- Teaching and research
- Clinical psychology and psychotherapy (e.g. after postgraduate psychotherapy training in your own practice, in psychiatric and psychosomatic clinics)
- Work, organizational and business psychology (e.g. in personnel development)
- Educational psychology (e.g. as a school psychologist)
- Market research, advertising agencies, opinion research institutes, media psychologist
- Health psychologist, traffic psychologist, sports psychologist, expert witness for forensic psychology
Students about studying psychology
I want to stay here!
Psychology - I've been fascinated by this science for ages. I wanted to understand how people function, how our feelings arise, how we perceive the world around us. What exactly is the human personality? How does our psyche develop over the course of our lives? Why do some people develop a mental disorder and others don't? All these and so many other questions have been with me for a long time and I still probably don't even know half of everything there is to know about psychology!
The Bachelor's degree in Psychology is very wide-ranging. You get a wide range of insights into the psychology of personality, clinical psychology, social psychology and also work and organizational psychology, to name just a few of the many areas I was able to get to know. It was nice to be able to get a taste of a wide variety of fields without having to commit to one area straight away.
For me, the psychology degree course at the University of Siegen is also characterized by two other points in particular: Firstly, the cohorts are pleasantly small with 60 students per year. While in other degree programs you don't even know many of your fellow students even after 3 years of study, I already knew all the students in my cohort after just one month! On the other hand, there are many dedicated professors working in the field of psychology who always have an open ear for us students and come up with great teaching concepts to introduce us to the content of the respective subject. So it certainly never gets boring!
After completing my Bachelor's degree, one thing was clear to me: I wanted to stay here! I decided to do a Master's in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Siegen and am looking forward to everything I can learn in the field of clinical psychology and beyond.
Siegen University of Applied Sciences will also consider the result of a study aptitude test for admission to the Bachelor of Psychology course from winter semester 2023/2024. Information on the test, including exercises, can be found on the test provider's website www.studieneignungstest-psychologie.de.
If you do not have an Abitur but do have a Fachhochschulreife, please find out more here.
If you do not have an Abitur but are already in the middle of your professional life, please find out more here.
Good reasons for studying psychology at the University of Siegen
- Polyvalent course of study recognized by professional law
- Wide-ranging basic training + clinical profile for psychotherapy training
- Connection to the psychotherapeutic university outpatient clinic
- Good student/teacher ratio due to small cohorts (~60)
- Permanent study coordination as contact person
