MA/MS in Psychology

Radboud's one-year Psychology master's offers three specialisations: Work, Organisation and Health; Gezondheidspsychologie, taught in Dutch; and Behaviour Change. Across all three, the programme splits roughly evenly between theoretical coursework and skills training on one side and an internship combined with a master's thesis on the other. During the internship, usually based externally at a company or hospital, students practise professional psychological skills while carrying out empirical research of their own. The thesis reports on this research, working through the results in detail and connecting them back to the theoretical knowledge built earlier in the programme. This structure is intended to produce graduates who qualify as academically trained psychologists, able to base their professional judgement on scientifically gathered evidence and to contribute new findings to the field rather than only applying existing knowledge.