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Psychology degrees compared with official data

849 courses at 143 universities, every page shows entry standards, graduate earnings, satisfaction scores and fees.

849
Courses
143
Universities

Top Psychology courses

Ordered by the arithmetic mean of the official measures published for each course, NSS satisfaction, graduate activity and continuation. Official data only; no commercial league-table input. Two of the three measures are published rounded to the nearest 5 percentage points, so courses are grouped into bands against the whole board instead of scored out of 10, and courses whose measures are identical are listed alphabetically.

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FdA Therapeutic Communication and Therapeutic Organisations
University of Essex · Top 5% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 90.1% · continued 100%
FdA Therapeutic Communication and Therapeutic Organisations
University of Essex · Top 5% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 90.1% · continued 100%
BSc (Hons) Neuroscience with Psychology
University of Aberdeen · Top 5% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 89.1% · in work or study 95% · continued 100%
BA (Hons) Education with Psychology
University of Bath · Top 5% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 88.9% · in work or study 100% · continued 95%
BSc (Hons) Psychology (Including Placement Year)
University of Essex · Top 5% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 88.4% · in work or study 100% · continued 95%
BSc (Hons) Psychology in Education with Study Abroad
University of Bristol · Top 5% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 88% · in work or study 100% · continued 95%
MSci (Hons) Applied Psychology (Clinical)
University of Exeter · Top 5% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 87.3% · in work or study 95% · continued 100%
BSc (Hons) Psychology in Education
University of Bristol · Top 5% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 91.1% · in work or study 100% · continued 90%
BSc (Hons) Counselling Psychology
University of Chichester · Top 5% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 85.9% · in work or study 100% · continued 95%
MSci (Hons) Advanced Applied Psychology
University of Chichester · Top 5% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 90% · in work or study 100% · continued 90%
BSc (Hons) Psychology With Developmental Disorders
South Wales/Prifysgol De Cymru · Top 5% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 83.9% · in work or study 100% · continued 95%
BSc (Hons) Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
University of Nottingham · Top 5% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 78.9% · in work or study 100% · continued 100%
BA (Hons) Education with Psychology
University of Bath · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 87.9% · in work or study 90% · continued 100%
BSc (Hons) Psychology
LMU · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 94.9% · continued 90%
BSc (Hons) Education and Psychology
Southampton · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 92.3% · in work or study 85% · continued 100%
BSc (Hons) Psychology in Education
University of Birmingham · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 89.9% · in work or study 90% · continued 97%
MSci (Hons) Psychology
University of York · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 87% · in work or study 95% · continued 95%
BSc (Hons) Psychology (Cognition and Neuroscience)
NTU · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 89.6% · in work or study 100% · continued 87%
BSc (Hons) Psychology (Cognition and Neuroscience)
NTU · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 89.6% · in work or study 100% · continued 87%
BSc (Hons) Psychology and Sociology
University of Suffolk · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 91.6% · in work or study 100% · continued 85%
BSc (Hons) Psychology
Loughborough University · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 83.9% · in work or study 96% · continued 96%
BSc (Hons) Psychology
Loughborough University · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 83.9% · in work or study 96% · continued 96%
MSci (Hons) Psychology and Psychological Practice
University of Birmingham · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 85.1% · in work or study 95% · continued 96%
BSc (Hons) Educational Psychology
University of Manchester · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 84.4% · in work or study 95% · continued 96%
BSc (Hons) Psychology and Language Sciences
UCL · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 90.4% · in work or study 90% · continued 95%
MSci (Hons) Psychology and Language Sciences
UCL · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 90.1% · in work or study 90% · continued 95%
BSc (Hons) Psychology and Counselling
Strathclyde · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 84.7% · in work or study 90% · continued 100%
BSc (Hons) Psychology
SSU · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 89% · in work or study 90% · continued 95%
BSc (Hons) Psychology with Counselling and Psychotherapy
MMU · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 90% · in work or study 95% · continued 89%
BA (Hons) Psychological and Behavioural Sciences
University of Cambridge · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 85.7% · in work or study 89% · continued 99%
BSc (Hons) Psychology and Sociology
Aston University · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 90.4% · in work or study 83% · continued 100%
BA (Hons) Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology
Bangor University · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 88.1% · in work or study 85% · continued 100%
BA (Hons) Psychology and Linguistics
Lancaster University · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 82.9% · in work or study 90% · continued 100%
BSc (Hons) Psychological and Behavioural Science
Durham University · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 84.9% · in work or study 88% · continued 100%
BSc (Hons) Psychology in Education
University of York · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 78% · in work or study 95% · continued 100%
BSc (Hons) Psychology with Professional Placement
University of Reading · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 86% · in work or study 95% · continued 92%
MPsych (Hons) Applied Psychology
Huddersfield · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 84.1% · in work or study 89% · continued 100%
BSc (Hons) Psychology (with a professional placement year)
University of Sussex · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 84.6% · in work or study 90% · continued 98%
HND Counselling and Applied Psychology
BFC · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 96.6% · continued 85%
BSc (Hons) Psychology and Statistics
University of St Andrews · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 87.1% · in work or study 90% · continued 95%
BA (Hons) Philosophy and Psychology
University of Nottingham · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 86.9% · in work or study 90% · continued 95%
BSc (Hons) Psychology
Huddersfield · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 81.9% · in work or study 95% · continued 95%
BSc (Hons) Psychology
University of Leeds · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 83.9% · in work or study 93% · continued 95%
BSc (Hons) Psychology with Year Abroad
University of Birmingham · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 88.7% · in work or study 88% · continued 95%
MA (Hons) Health in Social Science
University of Edinburgh · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 91.7% · in work or study 85% · continued 95%
BA (Hons) Psychology And Education Studies
LBU · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 87.6% · in work or study 93% · continued 91%
BSc (Hons) Psychology
University of Suffolk · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 91.4% · in work or study 100% · continued 80%
BSc (Hons) Psychology
Aberystwyth University · Top 25% of UK courses on official measures · NSS 90.3% · in work or study 90% · continued 91%

Pick your predicted grades above and each course gets a fit badge: they compare your UCAS points with that course’s admitted-student tariff, same logic as the calculator on every course page. Courses with no published tariff stay unbadged. Not a guarantee; many universities make contextual offers.

What Psychology graduates earn

What Psychology graduates actually earn, from real outcome data — 15 months, 3 years and 5 years after graduating.

Starting (15 months) HESA GO
£22,250 – £28,000
After 3 years LEO
£19,125 – £27,000
After 5 years LEO
£22,950 – £32,400

National figures for Psychology graduates — HESA Graduate Outcomes (15 months) and the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset (3 & 5 years). These are national, not university-specific; actual pay varies by employer, region, role and experience. Different cohorts, so the bars are not one group over time.

Roles & employers

Where Psychology graduates typically go.

Typical roles

  • Assistant psychologist
  • Clinical psychologist (after training)
  • People / HR roles
  • Researcher
  • Mental-health support worker

Where they work

  • The NHS
  • Schools
  • Research & consultancies
  • Charities

Every university offering Psychology

Course counts link to each university’s full profile.

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