Neuroscience and Psychology with a Professional Placement Year

Our Neuroscience & Psychology BSc programme cuts across disciplinary boundaries to provide you with the knowledge and skills that you need to understand the workings of the brain and the relationship between mental and neural processes in health and disease. Offered by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), the premier centre for mental health and related neurosciences research in Europe, it emphasises research-led teaching and provides an unparalleled opportunity to benefit from the expertise of world leading experts and state of the art facilities.

Key benefits

• You will study in a multidisciplinary environment, learning from and working with world leading experts in neuroscience and psychology.

• You will develop knowledge across disciplines and levels of analysis, from cells and molecules to cognitive and cultural processes.

• You will be trained in the latest technological and methodological developments in cognitive, systems and computational neuroscience.

• You will develop the computational, statistical and analytical skills required to work with complex neuroscientific data.

• You will develop the skills and mind-set required for working with people from diverse scientific backgrounds.

• You will have the opportunity to undertake a year’s professional placement or a year abroad. This year is subject to achieving a certain grade point average and being accepted at a partner institution.

Please see our online prospectus for further details on this programme: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/undergraduate