Study Psychology (Bachelor) ✔ TU Dresden

Important information

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Admission requirements

A prerequisite for application is the general high-school graduation certificate (Abitur) or a comparable qualification for admission to higher education.

NC (numerus clausus) selection

General information regarding NC selection procedures can be found here.
A short version regarding the NC selection procedure in English can be found here.

German language requirements

International applicants and German applicants with a foreign university entrance qualification are kindly advised to read the requirements for German-language courses.

Information on Studienkolleg

Applicants with foreign higher education entrance qualifications that do not allow immediate admission to a university in Germany, can attend a Studienkolleg (preparatory college) to acquire the subject-specific university entrance qualification. Please find further information on the Studienkolleg pages.
This degree program relates to the following specialized course at the Studienkolleg:
M-course

Application hints and tips

This degree program participates in the Dialogorientiertes Serviceverfahren (DoSV) – an initiative organized to aid communication between universities and applicants in cases where prospective students apply for multiple degree programs at multiple universities. This means that applicants from Germany and the rest of the EU must have an applicant ID (BID) and an authentication number (BAN) issued to them from Hochschulstart prior to submitting their application to TU Dresden.

General information for the degree programme

The Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Science at the TU Dresden sees its discipline as an empirical human science with a scientific, experimental orientation. The programme provides students with scientific findings on human perception, learning, reasoning, remembering, feeling, and motivation as well as with information on neuronal and hormonal control of human behaviour, human development, and several other fields.

The course of study consists of twenty-one mandatory modules, among them statistics, psychological assessment, experimental psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, biopsychology, etc., and two mandatory electives, English and interdisciplinary work. Furthermore, students write a bachelor thesis and complete a six-week professional internship.