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Master of Industrial and Organisational Psychology

Australia

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What will I learn?

Industrial and organisational psychology is a specialist area that applies psychological knowledge and skills to workplaces with the aim of improving organisational effectiveness and the quality of work life. Upon completion of this course, you will gain specialised, highly developed skills in assessment, treatment and intervention, and research, required for accreditation and registration.

The Master of Industrial and Organisational Psychology is a two-year full-time psychology course that includes nine coursework units, a research project and 1000 hours of practical placement spread over three different settings.

Course structure

Postgraduate coursework degrees and combined (coursework and research) degrees comprise a number of units.

Why study with us?

Psychology can take you anywhere and everywhere. Psychology is relevant to almost any human endeavour, meaning a psychology degree, or some complementary psychology studies, are relevant not only for traditional psychology careers, but for a wide range of careers.

Career Pathways

This course is designed to lead graduates to professional registration with the specialist title of Organisational Psychologist.

In the workplace graduates from this course play a number of critical roles generally associated with employee and organisational performance. Specific areas of practice of Industrial and Organisational psychologists include:

Recruitment and selection

Learning and development

Leadership and talent management

Change management

Workplace research and analysis

Occupational health and safety

Performance management

Wellbeing and stress

Human factors

Further Study

Students completing this degree may have the option to pursue further studies in research.

Which department am I in?

School of Psychological Science

CRICOS

077549D

Study options

Full Time (2 years)

Tuition fees
A$45,500.00 (US$ 30,026) per year

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution

Application deadline

Expected November 2024

More details

Start date

24 February 2025

Venue

Crawley Campus

35 Stirling Highway,

CRAWLEY,

Western Australia,

6009, PERTH, Australia

Entry requirements

For international students

(1) To be considered for admission to this course an applicant must have— (1) an accredited bachelor's honours degree in psychology with at least an upper second class Honours (2A), or an equivalent qualification, as recognised by the Psychology Board of Australia or the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council. The Honours degree in psychology must be completed within the past 10 years at the time of application or you must be provisionally or generally registered as a psychologist with AHPRA at the time of application; and (2) Applicants must be eligible for provisional registration as a psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia.

English language requirements:

TOEFL (paper-based): 570 with a Test of Written English (TWE) of no less than 4.5

IBT TOEFL (Internet-based test score): 82 with 22 for writing, 20 for speaking, 20 for listening, and 18 for reading

IELTS (Academic): overall score of at least 7.0 and no band less than 7.0

Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English: C pass

Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English: B grade

Pearson Test of English (PTE) (Academic): Overall score of 64 with a minimum score of 64 in the Reading and Writing sections, 59 in the Speaking section and 54 in the Listening section

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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About The University of Western Australia (UWA)

Students can set themselves apart with a globally recognised degree from a world top 100 university.

  • World-top 100 university - QS World University Rankings 2024
  • Rated 5-stars by Good Universities Guide 2023
  • 18 subject areas in world’s top 50 (QSWUR 2024 and ARWU 2022)

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