/ Undergraduate /
Start date:
September 2025
You'll need:
112 UCAS points (or equivalent)
Foundation Year entry: 64 UCAS points (or equivalent)
UCAS Code:
C8L3
C8L2 (if choosing Foundation Year)
On-Campus Taster Day
Saturday 22 February 2025
Study a degree that prepares you for a career in the dynamic, future-orientated and ever-changing society of psychology and sociology.
Did you know?
We are accredited by the British Psychological Society.
At least 50% of your teaching will be in seminars, lab classes or workshops.
Top modern university in London in Sociology
(Complete University Guide 2025)
Silver in the 2023 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)
For delivering high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for our students.
#8 in England for undergraduate student satisfaction
National Student Survey 2024
Foundation Year
This course can also be studied with a foundation year (September entry only).
Modules
These modules are those we currently offer for 1 year (full-time) and may be subject to change.
- Psychology of Resilience and Success
- Introduction to Psychological Research
- The Evolution of Psychology
- Understanding Human Behaviour
- Introduction to Sociology
- Sociology of Everyday Life
September 2025 entry onwards: We are reviewing and updating our curriculum to ensure our programmes provide the skills, knowledge, and experience needed for the evolving job market.
The modules listed are a sample of those currently offered and may change through the review process. However, the core learning outcomes and themes will remain similar.
These modules are those we currently offer for 1 year (full-time) and may be subject to change.
- Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience
- Understanding the Individual and Society
- Development and Transitions Across the Lifespan
- Psychological Research: Design, Analysis and Impact
- The Sociological Imagination
- Human Rights in Society
September 2025 entry onwards: We are reviewing and updating our curriculum to ensure our programmes provide the skills, knowledge, and experience needed for the evolving job market.
The modules listed are a sample of those currently offered and may change through the review process. However, the core learning outcomes and themes will remain similar.
This course offers all students the option of a one-year paid work placement, to boost your employability even further. If you choose this route, you will take the placement following year two of your course, and then return to complete your degree.
Why take a placement?
A placement year is the perfect opportunity to gain valuable work experience, to build on the career skills we will teach you on this degree. The connections you make on the placement will improve your career prospects further, and equip you with the skills you need to secure graduate-level employment.
How we support you
The University's Placement and Work Experience Team are experts at helping you to secure a placement. They will work closely with you from the start, helping you research potential employers, discover placement opportunities, create and pitch your CV, and will coach you to perform well in interviews. We aren't able to guarantee a placement, but our sector-leading advisors will give you the best possible chance of securing one.
Find out more about how we'll support you
We understand that your plans might change once you start your programme. If you decide not to do a placement, you will have the option of completing the three year version of your programme.
Whatever your choice, you will have access to many opportunities for work experience through our Placement and Work Experience Team, and access to face-to-face and 24/7 online careers support.
These modules are those we currently offer for 1 year (full-time) and may be subject to change.
- Psychological Practice for Communities and Industry
- Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights
- Independent Research Project
- Digital Society
- Sociology of Health and Medicine
September 2025 entry onwards: We are reviewing and updating our curriculum to ensure our programmes provide the skills, knowledge, and experience needed for the evolving job market.
The modules listed are a sample of those currently offered and may change through the review process. However, the core learning outcomes and themes will remain similar.
Skills
You’ll focus on developing ‘psychological and sociology literacy’ and the ability to apply knowledge for the benefit of self, community, and society.
This includes opportunities for reflective learning, self-development and practical applications.
You’ll gain a unique and rich understanding through a psychological and sociological lens of:
- Human behaviour
- Health and wellbeing
- Social processes and inequalities
- Experiences of the individual and society
You’ll develop a range of skills, that are valued by employers. These include:
- Reasoning
- Problem solving and analytical skills
- Effective communication
- Reflective and critical thinking
- Creativity
- Data analysis
- Interpersonal sensitivity and awareness
You’ll learn core and contemporary subjects within psychology and sociology and shape your degree around your own interests and ambitions. Topics include:
- Sociology of everyday life
- Human rights in society
- Digital society
Professional accreditation
Our degree is professionally accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS). This means if you graduate with at least a 2:2 you’ll be eligible for Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) of the BPS. Your first step on the path to becoming a Chartered Psychologist.
It also means our teaching is of the highest standard, and you’ll receive excellent levels of support within our School.
Learning
Get ready for your future with tailored teaching and contact time.
On our BSc Psychology and Sociology, you’ll be taught innovatively through lectures and small group seminars. At least 50% of your teaching will be in seminars, lab classes or workshops.
You’ll be learning through our enthusiastic and supporting academic tutors, who are also practitioners and involved in the latest research.
You’ll apply your knowledge of concepts and theories of current issues and problems through:
- Assessments
- Essays
- Exams
- Portfolios
- Presentations
- Authentic assessments
As our courses are taught over no more than three days per week, you’ll have the flexibility to take on paid part-time work, placements, or internships – gaining real-world experience before you graduate.
Assessment
There are multiple opportunities for you to integrate theory and practice to real-world applications.
You’ll demonstrate your skills and understanding through:
- Exams
- Lab reports
- Essays
- Portfolios
- Case studies
- Presentations
- Research summaries
Between Years 2 and 3, you can also opt for a professional placement year, meaning you have the opportunity to apply for a placement and gain valuable real-world experience.
Careers
Earn a degree you can excel with.
Your future could be in:
- Scientific research and teaching
- Youth and community work
- Charitable organisations
- Local and national government, public sector and police
- Law and legal services
- Financial services
You could continue your studies and become a forensic, counsellor, or occupational, educational or clinical psychologist.
Open days
Get a real taste of our campus, community and what it’s like to study at Roehampton
Applying
Full-time UK undergraduate students apply through UCAS.
Course subject to curriculum review and validation.
Entry tariff
112 UCAS points (or equivalent)
Foundation Year entry: 64 UCAS points (or equivalent)
Looking to work out your UCAS points or find out about our entry requirements? Find out more.
When we consider applications to study with us, we form a complete view of your achievements to date, and future potential, and can offer flexibility in entry requirements. Find out more about our Contextual Offer scheme.
Specific entry requirements
GCSE (or equivalent) requirement: Maths, Grade C/4.
General entry requirements
September 2025 entry tuition fees
UK (home) tuition fees
Undergraduate degree: £9,535
Foundation Year: £9,535
We offer a wide range of scholarships and bursaries. See our financial support pages for UK students.
We also provide other ways to support the cost of living, including free buses and on-campus car parking, hardship support and some of the most affordable student accommodation and catering in London. Find out more about how we can support you.
International undergraduate students apply through our direct application system.
Course subject to curriculum review and validation.
Looking to work out your UCAS points or find out about our entry requirements? Find out more.
When we consider applications to study with us, we form a complete view of your achievements to date, and future potential, and can offer flexibility in entry requirements. Find out more about our Contextual Offer scheme.
Specific entry requirements
GCSE (or equivalent) requirement: Maths, Grade C/4.
General entry requirements
September 2025 entry tuition fees
EU and international tuition fees
Undergraduate degree: £16,950
Foundation Year: £16,950
We offer a wide range of scholarships and bursaries. See our financial support pages for international students.
We also provide other ways to support the cost of living, including free buses and on-campus car parking, hardship support and some of the most affordable student accommodation and catering in London. Find out more about how we can support you.
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