Psychology, B.Sc.
The bachelor's degree in psychology leads to a first professional qualification. It includes extensive methodological training (research methods, statistics and data analysis), training in the basic areas, which deal with perception and memory processes, learning and emotions, as well as the biopsychological foundations of human behavior and experience. Furthermore, questions of personality and the development of individuals in different cultures and age groups as well as the behavior and attitudes of groups are examined. Other areas taught in the bachelor's degree are diagnostic methods and the applied subjects of disorder theory, general procedural theory of psychotherapy, preventive and rehabilitative concepts of psychotherapeutic action as well as the basics of educational psychology and work and organizational psychology. Other important training content includes the research internship and the job-related internships as well as the bachelor's thesis.
The bachelor's degree in psychology was designed on the basis of the licensing regulations and contains all the licensing-relevant content provided for in the bachelor's degree.
Programme facts
| Degree | Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) |
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| Duration | 6 semesters, 180 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Required German | C1 |
| Required English | B2 |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 15.07 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €366.33 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 →What you study
Students in the Bachelor's degree program in Psychology acquire sound methodological skills and broad knowledge of the theoretical foundations required for describing, explaining, predicting and shaping human experience and behavior, regardless of their specialization. These include the basics of perception and cognitive psychology, learning, emotion and motivation psychology, supplemented by the neurobiological foundations of human experience and behavior, the theoretical foundations of development and the ability to describe, explain and predict development processes. In addition, the relevant theories and the current state of research in social and personality psychology and their application to everyday phenomena are taught. The design and structure of the polyvalent bachelor's degree program gives students the opportunity to get to know the various fields of application of psychology before choosing their specialization.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
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The bachelor's degree qualifies you for routine psychological tasks, for example in the field of clinical diagnostics and professional aptitude diagnostics, the design and evaluation of work equipment and activities and their organization, as well as for health or personnel psychology interventions. In addition, the six-semester bachelor's degree program is the standard admission requirement for master's studies. The broad coverage of the relevant basic and applied subjects allows maximum flexibility for the choice of a subsequent master's degree program.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Lower Saxony), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €366.33 |
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 | German C1, English B2 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | Directly to the university, 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.
- 2German up to C1 and a certificateDSH or TestDaF has to be passed before you apply.
- 3Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 4Application directly to the university until 15.07Send the documents well before the deadline — an incomplete application cannot be completed after it.
- 5Admission, 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.
If your level is not enough yet
The two most common stoppers are a language level below the requirement and a certificate without direct admission. Both can be solved, but they take months — plan them now, not after a rejection.
Questions about this programme
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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.