Overview

The Bachelor of Psychological Sciences provides you with knowledge and skills that will improve your ability to understand and explain human behaviour and relationships.

This course is delivered through Swinburne Online and is designed to meet the needs of those who are unable to undertake on-campus study.

Bachelor of Psychological Sciences course handbook

Skills you’ll learn

  • Explore different psychological abnormalities
  • Explain and predict people’s behaviours
  • Examine cognitive processes
  • Learn approaches to understand personality
  • Explain and predict people's behaviour

Your career opportunities

  • Psychologist (with further study)
  • Mental health support worker
  • Youth and welfare services worker
  • Juvenile justice and corrections officer
  • Community Services and development officer
International student visa

International students in Australia who hold student visas are required to study full-time and on campus. Courses that are taught entirely online are only available to international students studying outside Australia or those in Australia who are not on a student visa. Online courses are not available to international students in Australia who hold a student visa.

Professional accreditations

Why Swinburne?

Ranked top 250 in the world for the subject of psychology

Times Higher Education World University Ranking by Subject 2023

83.5% of students found employment within 4 months of graduating

Ranked Top 330 in Psychology

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023
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    Study with Swinburne Online

    With Swinburne Online, the learning experience is 100% online and studied at your own pace. Our courses are built for the jobs of the future with a focus on collaboration and our flexible learning environment empowers you to study on your own terms. They are developed by leaders in the field and taught by professionals with industry experience.