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The master’s degree in Psychology has 11 specializations, also known as ‘tracks’. In the Dutch-taught tracks, at least part of the teaching is in Dutch. In the English-taught tracks, most or all of the teaching is in English.

Some tracks have limited numbers of places available. An overview of these can be found under the heading ‘master’s tracks: starting dates and available places’ on this page.

Application, Selection and Admission in steps

Step 1: check the admission requirements for the track(s) of your choice

Whether you can be admitted to a master’s track first of all depends on your previous education. In addition, some master's tracks have specific criteria that must be fulfilled.

Step 2: apply for the master’s track(s)

Checklist before applying:

  1. Check under step 1 whether you satisfy all the admission requirements and criteria.
  2. You can apply between 15 August and 1 October/15 November (depending on your chosen track) for the start of the master's degree in February 2025.
  3. Make sure you make a well-considered choice, because you can only graduate in one Master’s track. Once you have been placed in a track, you cannot switch to another track before the start or during the master's program.
  4. You can apply before you complete your bachelor's degree, but must have obtained your Bachelor’s degree before the start of the master's programme.
Step 3: check whether you have to take a selection test

Most master’s tracks have more admissible students than available places. A selection procedure, including a selection test, therefore applies. There are also a number of tracks without selection procedures, to which you can be directly admitted.

An overview of available places for each track can be found under the heading ‘master’s tracks: starting dates and available places’ further down on this page.

Master’s tracks with selection procedures

Master’s tracks without selection procedures

Klinische Psychologie
Ontwikkelingspsychologie
Klinische Neuropsychologie
Clinical Neuropsychology 
Talent Development and Creativity*
Clinical Forensic Psychology & Victimology*

Applied Social Psychology*
Applied Cognitive Neuroscience
Environmental Psychology*
Theory and History of Psychology
Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology

Application deadline - master’s tracks starting in February 2025

1 October 2024

15 November 2024**

Application deadline - master’s tracks starting in September 2025

1 March 2025

1 May 2025**

* These tracks only start in September
** Please note - students from outside the EU/EEA
We strongly advise you to submit your application in good time (more than a month in advance) so that you will have enough time to arrange or extend your visa.

Step 4: the selection test (if necessary for your master’s track)

Several weeks after the application deadline, you will be notified whether you qualify for admission to the Master’s track(s) of your choice, whether you need to participate in a selection procedure, and what the next steps in your admission process are.

If you apply for a master’s track with a selection procedure, you will be invited to take a selection test. Please note that in order to be invited to take the test, you will have to provide a sufficiently serious motivation for your track preference in the application form.

Test
The selection test is a general test of your knowledge of topics that are likely to have been covered by general Bachelor’s degree programmes in Psychology. The test will consist of 60 questions, take 90 minutes, and will be administered in English.

Location
The selection test will be held on site in Groningen.

Eligibility for an online test
Students who are working on or have completed a Bachelor’s degree outside the EEA and are still living outside the EEA* will be given the opportunity to take the selection test online. You may also be eligible for an online test if you (temporarily) live outside the EEA for study-related activities that are relevant to your current Bachelor’s degree or your desired Master’s track. The test will then be administered with online surveillance. In both cases, contact the admissions committee via toelatingscommissie.masterpsy@rug.nl.

*Including the United Kingdom and Switzerland, students from these countries must also take the selection test on-site.

Selection test

Start Februari 2025

Start September 2025

Date

16 November 2024
1.30-3 p.m. CET

3 May 2025
1.30-3 p.m. CET

Location

Aletta Jacobs Hall
Blauwborgje 4
Groningen

Aletta Jacobs Hall
Blauwborgje 4
Groningen

Practice test
We would like to give you the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the content and method of the test. Examples of test questions can be found in Selectietoets - oefenvragen (PDF document).

A practice test will be made available in due course, so that you can also become familiar with the test environment. You will be notified of this via email.

Place allocation
A ranking list will be drawn up for each track based on the selection test and a ballot, listing all students who indicated this track as their first choice, supplemented with students who indicated the track as their second choice. Given the limited validity of the test, a high/low categorization will be used rather than a full ranking based on test scores. Students will be placed in the categories High or Low based on their scores, in such a way that a large majority will fall into the High category.

Subsequently, for each track, the students in the High category will be placed on the ranking list for the track in random order via a ballot, after which the students in the Low category will be added to the bottom of the list in random order via a ballot. This will first be done for the students who indicated the track as their first choice, and subsequently (and therefore below them on the ranking list) for the students who indicated the track as their second choice. In this way, each student is assigned a ranking number on the list for the track(s) of their choice. Students with ranking numbers at or below the maximum number of available places will be offered a place in the track. All others are placed on the waiting list in the ranking order, and will be assigned a place as soon as one becomes available.

Students who fail to secure a place in the track of their choice can try again in a future selection procedure. The results of previous selections will not count in future selection procedures, and the selection test will have to be taken again.

Overview of application dates and deadlines

Master’s tracks: starting dates and available places
Starting date
Tracks
Available places
1 Feb 2025
Applied Cognitive Neuroscience
unlimited
Clinical Neuropsychology
5
Klinische Neuropsychologie
18
Klinische Psychologie
26
Ontwikkelingspsychologie*
10
Theory and History of Psychology
unlimited
Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology
unlimited
1 Sep 2025
Applied Cognitive Neuroscience
unlimited
Applied Social Psychology
unlimited
Clinical Forensic Psychology & Victimology
30
Clinical Neuropsychology
10
Klinische Neuropsychologie
37
Environmental Psychology
unlimited
Klinische Psychologie
48
Ontwikkelingspsychologie*
30
Talent Development and Creativity
unlimited
Theory and History of Psychology
unlimited
Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology
unlimited
* Starting from September 2025, the track Ontwikkelingspsychologie will only begin in September.
Overview of application dates and deadlines

Master’s tracks with selection procedures

Klinische Psychologie, Ontwikkelingspsychologie, Klinische Neuropsychologie, Clinical Neuropsychology, Clinical Forensic psychology & Victimology*, Talent Development and Creativity*

Application for starting date  

1 Feb 2025

1 Sep 2025

Application 

15 Aug 2024 -
1 Oct 2024

15 Jan 2025 -
1 March 2025

Decision on application and accessibility

No later than
8 Nov 2024

No later than
11 Apr 2025

Selection test

16 Nov 2024

3 May 2025

Results of selection test
Admission, provisional admission, or waiting list

No later than
6 Dec 2024

No later than
30 May 2025

Biweekly updates on admission to students on waiting list

10 Dec 2024 -
21 Jan 2025

3 June 2025 - 26 Aug 2025

Actual admission
once all
requirements have been satisfied, such as degree certificates,
courses, language requirements, tuition fees

No later than
31 Jan 2025

(preferably sooner)

No later than
31 Aug 2025

(preferably sooner)



Master’s tracks without selection procedures

Applied Cognitive Neuroscience, Applied Social Psychology*, Environmental psychology*, Theory and History of Psychology, Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology

Application for starting date 

1 Feb 2025

1 Sep 2025

Registration

15 Aug 2024 -
15 Nov 2024**

15 Jan 2025 -
1 May 2025**

Decision on application and accessibility

No later than
10 dec 2024

No later than
13 June 2025

Actual admission
once all
requirements have been satisfied, such as degree certificates, courses, language requirements, tuition fees

No later than
31 Jan 2025

(preferably sooner)

No later than
31 Aug 2025

(preferably sooner)

* These tracks only start in September
** Please note - students from outside the EU/EEA

We strongly advise you to submit your application in good time (more than a month in advance) so that you will have enough time to arrange or extend your visa.

Open days
18 t/m 22 November 2024
Information about the UG Master’s degree programmes for current university or university of applied sciences Bachelor’s students.
24 t/m 28 March 2025
Information about the UG Master’s degree programmes for current university or university of applied sciences Bachelor’s students.
Career services

Your career already starts during your studies. Career Services BSS will help you shape this career. What would you like to specialize in, and what will you be able to do after you graduate? Are you considering a career as a psychologist, manager, lecturer, behavioural scientist, consultant, researcher, HR advisor, or educationalist? Or have you not decided yet and would like some information about possible options or where to start exploring?

Email a student

Would you like to hear from a hands-on expert what it is like to study Psychology? Our student ambassadors are happy to answer all your questions about the Psychology programme.

For the Dutch Psychology programme, contact voorlichting.psychologie rug.nl.

For the English Psychology programme, contact studyinformation.bss rug.nl

Jonne, student psychology
Jonne
Dorien, student psychology
Dorien
Astrid, student pscyhology
Astrid

If you have any content-specific questions about the degree programme in Psychology, please have a look at the website, or contact a study advisor: studyadvice.psy rug.nl.

Contact

Who can I contact if I have questions about:

> registration (general)

Please contact the Department of Student Information & Administration (SIA)

> the content of the Psychology degree programme
Please contact the BSS Student Service Desk and Administration. First, check the current opening hours and telephone availability of the department.
Email: owbalie.gmw rug.nl, tel.: +31 (0)50 363 6301.
If you have a brief question, you can also send an email to the study advisor via studieadvies.psy rug.nl. You can make an appointment with the study advisor via the Student Service Desk.

> admission and selection procedure for the Master’s degree programme in Psychology

Please contact toelatingscommissie.masterpsy rug.nl

> a specific track

Please contact the coordinator of the track: Applied Cognitive Psychology | Applied Social Psychology | Cognitieve Psychologie en Psychofysiologie | Environmental Psychology | Klinische Psychologie | Klinische Neuropsychologie | Ontwikkelingspsychologie | Talent Development and Creativity | Theory and History of Psychology | Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology


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