In addition to acquiring foundation knowledge and methodological skills in required modules, the internship, and the Master’s thesis, students choose from a broad spectrum of core elective modules to focus on specific topics. From this great diversity of core elective modules, Master’s students put together their individual plan of study for 40 ECTS credits.

• Applied cognitive science and decision-making
• Diagnostics and counselling
• Developmental and family psychology: child and adolescent psychology as well as resource-oriented work
• Clinical psychology: adult as well as children and adolescent clinical psychology
• Media psychology
• Organization development and consulting
• Traffic and safety psychology

• Ageing society
• Health psychology
• Integration and participation
• People and digitization
• Environmental and sustainability psychology

The Swiss Federal Act on the Psychology Professions provides that the Master of Science (MSc) in applied psychology entitles the holder to use the professional title ‘psychologist’. Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees awarded by universities of applied sciences and by universities are equivalent. A qualified Master’s degree also makes it possible to do doctoral studies leading to the doctorate.

To work as a psychotherapist, additional training is required to earn the federal postgraduate title ‘psychotherapist’. Certain specializations also additionally require the acquisition of a specialist title, for example in school psychology services the specialist title ‘child and adolescent psychologist’.