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The Bachelor of Arts (BA) offers the flexibility to pursue your passions across diverse subjects. With an extensive selection of study options, you can tailor your education to match your interests or professional aspirations. A BA equips you with adaptable skills and knowledge to thrive in evolving job markets, emphasizing competencies like effective communication and innovative problem-solving that broaden your career prospects. Enhance your professional toolkit by selecting from our specialized, theme-oriented modules. Opting for a double major provides concentrated expertise while allowing initial exploration across disciplines before committing to two focus areas. Alternatively, combine your BA with another degree through our conjoint program to bridge different academic fields.
Psychology is available as a BSc major, a BAdvSci(Hons) specialization, or a BA major. Detailed information appears later on this page. Key study areas encompass: Cognitive processes, Neural foundations of behavior, Behavioral conditioning, Brain-behavior relationships, Sensory perception, Gender psychology, and Group dynamics.
Secondary school qualifications:
You need to have one of the following:
International Baccalaureate Diploma with a minimum total score of 24.
General Certificate of Education (GCE) Advanced Level. You must have completed a minimum of three A-Level subjects.
GCE ‘A’ Level requirements apply to ‘A’ Level qualifications examined by bodies such as AQA, OCR, Edexcel, WJEC, CCEA and Pearson Education Limited taken outside of New Zealand.
IELTS (Academic): Overall score of 6.0 and no bands below 5.5; Internet based TOEFL (iBT): Overall score of 80 and a written score of 21; Paper-based TOEFL: Overall score of 60 and a writing score of 21; Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE), Cambridge English Proficiency (CPE): Overall score of 169 and no bands below 162; Foundation Certificate in English for Academic Purposes (FCertEAP): Grade of C-; Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic: Overall score of 50 and no PTE Communicative score below 42; Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB): 80.