Entry requirements

Prospective students should:

• Possess the skills, understanding and knowledge required for earning the bachelor’s degree, including the following introductory courses:
  • Introduction to Psychology
  • Social and/or Organisational Psychology
  • Personality Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuropsychology and/or Psychophysiology and/or Biopsychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
• Possess advanced knowledge at the level of a third year bachelor’s course on the topic of the master’s specialisation;
• Have sufficient knowledge of methods and statistics (up to 20 EC): introductory and more advanced courses in methods and statistics of psychological research (including psychometrics, multivariate data analysis) and the use of SPSS;
• Have earned the degree of bachelor at a university not being a university of professional education, or demonstrate the ability to meet the requirements for such a degree.
• Have proof of thorough proficiency in English: IELTS 7 or TOEFL 100/250/600 evidenced by an appropriate test.
  This requirement does not apply if you have:
  • completed your education in Canada, USA, UK, Ireland, New Zealand or Australia, or
  • an International Baccalaureate, or
  • a Dutch VWO diploma

For this specialisation applicants with a higher professional education (HBO) degree in Applied Psychology from the Hogeschool Leiden, with a Leiden University pre-master’s can apply for admission.
Other applicants with a higher professional education (HBO) degree in a related field of science may also be considered. Please contact the study adviser for more information.

If you don’t meet these requirements and you are a Dutch native speaker, you can apply for the pre-master’s.

Students who have a BSc in Psychology from Leiden University do not have to apply for admission.