Queensland University of Technology
Master of Psychology (Educational and Developmental)
- Delivery: Face to Face
- Study Level: Postgraduate
- Duration: 2 Years
Pursue your passion to optimise learning and development and work with individuals, families and communities to promote well-being and resilience.
Course overview
Highlights
- Pursue your interest in psychology and enhance your professional practice and career options
- Work with individuals, families and communities to optimise learning and development across the entire lifespan
- Learn to conceptualise, assess and treat diverse presentations through a range of perspectives, including cognitive-behavioural, attachment-focused and multisystemic approaches
- Gain practical experience in QUT's Psychology and Counselling Clinic and external placements in community, health, or educational settings
- Graduates are eligible to apply for general registration as a psychologist in Australia.
The Master of Psychology (Educational and Developmental) prepares graduates with essential knowledge, practical skills, values and ethical and cultural sensitivity for practice in a range of contemporary settings. This practice-oriented program offers an innovative and stimulating program of coursework and a variety of experiences through practical placements.
Before you go out on professional placement, you will have the opportunity to gain experience working with clients in the QUT Psychology and Counselling Clinic. You will be supported to step into the workplace and build your professional capabilities and networks through Work Integrated Learning. Placement opportunities exist across a wide variety of settings, allowing you to gain a diversity of practice and training.
Work in this field includes supporting individuals with assessment and therapy and also includes supporting change at broader levels, such as promoting secure attachment relationships, creating and implementing group or whole-school intervention and prevention programs and contributing to broader societal needs through advocacy, psychoeducation and promoting psychological research.
QUT's graduates work as psychologists in diverse settings, including, but not limited to, private practice, early intervention, infant and perinatal mental health, psychiatric settings, primary and secondary schools, disability services, hospital services, community outreach, higher education, child protection, corrections, child and youth mental health and neurodevelopmental research.
CSP Subsidised Fees Available
This program has a limited quota of Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP). The indicative CSP price is calculated based on first year fees for EFT. The actual fee may vary if there are choices in electives or majors.
Key facts
What you will study
To complete the Master of Psychology (Educational and Developmental), students must fulfil 192 credit points. Unless otherwise indicated, each unit is worth 12 credit points.
Core units
- Psychological Interventions
- Advanced Psychological Assessment
- Psychopathology and Treatment
- Supervised Psychology Practicum: Internship 1
- Professional Psychological Practice and Ethics
- Development and Disability
- Supervised Psychology Practicum: Internship 2 (24 credit points)
- Interventions in Educational and Developmental Psychology
- Applied Developmental Science
- Supervised Educational and Developmental Psychology Practicum: Externship 1 (24 credit points)
- Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology
- Advanced Educational and Developmental Psychology Practice
- Supervised Educational and Developmental Psychology Practicum: Externship 2 (24 credit points)
Entry requirements
You must have:
- A recognised psychology honours or four-year bachelor's degree (or higher) in psychology completed within the last 10 years (2015 or later).
- A minimum fourth-year psychology unit grade point average (GPA) of 6.00 (on QUT's 7-point scale) in your psychology bachelor's degree.
Your degree must be accredited by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC) as a 4-year training (or equivalent) program. For example, QUT has a Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Honours Psychology) degree.
If you have overseas qualifications, you must provide certification with your application from the Australian Psychological Society (APS) stating your degree is equivalent to an APAC-approved, four-year training in psychology. Please ensure you lodge your certification request with APS as early as possible, as APS processing times can exceed three months.
English language requirements
- IELTS (Academic): 7.0 or better overall with no subscore below 7.0
- PTE (Academic): 65 or better overall with no subscore below 65
- TOEFL (iBT): 98 or better overall with a writing subscore of 27 or better, listening and reading subscore of 24 or better and speaking subscore of 23 or better
- Cambridge English Score: 185 or better overall with no subscore below 185
The test must have been completed within two years before the proposed course start month.
Contact the university for more information.
Recognition of Prior Learning
You may be able to have your past studies or work experience count as credit towards your QUT course. QUT call this 'advanced standing'. That means you might not have to complete all the units in your course structure. You may be able to graduate sooner. Exemptions are assessed individually – talk to QUT's Course Consultant for more information.
Outcomes
Career outcomes
This course provides the academic foundation for a career in educational and developmental psychology. Educational and developmental psychologists are employed in a wide range of settings and can also work as independent (private) practitioners. Educational and developmental psychology may also provide a springboard for other careers, subject to additional or complementary training.
Possible careers:
- Counsellor
- Developmental Psychologist
- Health Researcher
- Policy Adviser
- Psychologist
- School Counsellor
- School Psychologist
Professional Recognition
This program meets the requirements for full registration as a psychologist in Australia, plus membership of the Australian Psychological Society and associate membership of the College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists.
Fees and CSP
Indicative 2026 fee: $4,700 per year full-time for 96 credit points (Commonwealth Supported Place)
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. QUT reviews fees annually. They may be subject to increases.
You may need to pay student services and amenities (SA) fees as part of your course costs.
Commonwealth Supported Places
The Australian Government allocates a certain number of CSPs to the universities each year, which are then distributed to students based on merit.
If you're a Commonwealth Supported Student (CSS), you'll only need to pay a portion of your tuition fees. This is known as the student contribution amount – the balance once the government subsidy is applied. This means your costs are much lower.
Limited CSP spaces are offered to students enrolled in selected postgraduate courses.
Your student contribution amount is:
- Calculated per unit you're enrolled in.
- Depending on the study areas they relate to.
- Reviewed and adjusted each year.
HECS-HELP loans are available to CSP students to pay the student contribution amount.
