Psychology, B.Sc.
How can people be encouraged to adopt sustainable consumer behaviors? How can people be motivated to change their health behaviors? How do people react to the progressive digitalisation? And how can good leadership be promoted in organisations? Studying psychology at Leuphana College means dealing with our society and its challenges, as well as looking at individuals and groups as actors in this society. Those who choose to study psychology at Leuphana College are fundamentally interested in exploring and understanding how humans think, feel, and act in various contexts of societal relevance. Its modern and future-oriented focus aimed at socially relevant issues gives the Psychology major a unique profile in Germany and internationally.
Programme facts
| Degree | Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) |
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| Duration | 6 semesters, 180 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Required English | B2 |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.07 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €352.89 per semester |
What the tuition fee consists of
Will I get in
The programme has an admission restriction: the average grade of your certificate, converted to the German scale, decides. The cut-off changes every year — last year's value shows the order of magnitude, not a promise.
How the selection works and how strong the competition is — we go through it against your certificate when we select programmes for you.
Programme selection →About the programme
Psychology is a versatile scientific discipline that is omnipresent in our everyday lives and significantly contributes to a better understanding and prediction of human perception, decision-making, and behaviour. Psychological research helps to describe, explain, and predict how people think, feel, and act in an ever more changing world with vast economic developments, societal transitions, and environmental threats.
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Thus, psychology must start to broaden its perspective from a narrow focus on intraindividual processes (e.g., focus on mental disorders or emotional disturbances of the individual) to a more comprehensive focus, integrating interpersonal, intragroup, and intergroup processes – which shape the transition to economic, ecological, and societal prosperity.
What you study
The Leuphana Semester is the chance for an in-depth and fundamental engagement with science and academic methods. You hone your critical thinking skills so that you are able to question the familiar, learning how to select the right approach for systematic investigation and knowledge acquisition, and how to deal responsibly with scientific and academic findings. At the same time, you will be given an introduction to psychology. This means that you will gain some first insights into the basic psychological subjects as well as their application to practical fields within society. You will also deal with descriptive statistics and psychological measurement methods. Learning the principles of academic analysis, writing, and research in general, and the introduction to the major in particular,are the fundamental goal of the interdisciplinary Bachelor programme in psychology.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
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In the Psychology major, you acquire an in-depth knowledge of basic subjects in psychology, empirical and scientific methods and psychological diagnostics.
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Together with the Psychology & Society minor, the major allows you to develop important skills for positions in education, social work, consulting, or human resources. It also qualifies you for a broad range of Masters programmes in psychology (except clinical psychology).
The minor in Business Psychology qualifies you in particular for positions in human resources, professional development, advertising, marketing, and research and development in the field of psychological ergonomics.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Lower Saxony), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €352.89 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | A school certificate that gives access to university in Germany — directly or after a Studienkolleg. |
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| Language | English B2 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.07 |
The procedure and the set of documents depend on your certificate. We check the university's requirements against your documents and give you a list: what to submit, how to certify and translate it, where and when to apply.
Check the requirementsHow to get into this programme
- 1Check your certificate and its recognitionDirect admission, a year at a university at home, or Studienkolleg first — this decides the whole plan.
- 2Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 3Application via uni-assist until 15.07uni-assist checks documents for 4–6 weeks — send them well before the deadline.
- 4Admission, visa, movingPlan 2–3 months for the visa and the blocked account in parallel.
How to apply
You can submit the application yourself or with our help — the university decides on admission in both cases.
Applications go through the university's portal or uni-assist. Typical mistakes:
- ×incorrectly made certified copies and translations
- ×a wrong set of documents
- ×the application submitted the wrong way
- ×errors or gaps in the application form
- ×the application submitted at the wrong time — too early or too late
An incomplete or incorrectly prepared application is excluded from the selection — it can no longer be corrected after the deadline.
StudyInFocus does not represent the university and does not influence the admission decision. We do not sell study places and do not guarantee admission — this is a service for preparing and submitting documents on the applicant's side.
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Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 15.07.2027 (274 days left). Language, translations and the document check take months, not weeks. In 30 minutes we will build a plan backwards from the deadline and tell you honestly whether you can make it.