MSc Business Psychology with Coaching

The MSc Psychology with Coaching programme at Heriot-Watt University is the most established masters degree of its kind in Europe as it has a well-earned reputation for producing graduates who can improve the performance and behaviour of individuals and teams.

The MSc Psychology with Coaching programme at Heriot-Watt University is the most established masters degree of its kind in Europe as it has a well-earned reputation for producing graduates who can improve the performance and behaviour of individuals and teams.

Coaching psychology is a thriving area of applied psychology which deals with professional and personal issues practically. There is a growing demand for experts in evidence-based coaching who can offer effective non-clinical interventions to help individuals and teams by increasing productivity, managing talent and dealing with conflict, stress and change. This demand exists across several sectors and areas of performance, including:

• occupational
• educational
• health
• counselling
• sports psychology
• leadership
• management
• organisational development 
• human resources

This degree programme balances practical and theoretical learning to ensure that youll make positive and effective contributions that help people and organisations flourish. Youll learn to apply positive psychology through tried and tested coaching practices and combine this with an understanding of established theory from business psychology.

Youll develop numeracy and ICT skills using statistics software packages and by conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis. Youll also be able to develop communication skills through coursework and group discussions/presentations.

Youll learn key skills that can be applied in the workplace through various wider roles such as management, consultancy and HR, as well as specialised coaching roles such as executive coach, talent management, career coaching and mentoring.

Our MSc Business Psychology with Coaching degree is taught by experienced researchers and practitioners from the fields of psychology, counselling and coaching. Their expertise and experience will help you develop key skills for a career in coaching in the workplace or as a step to becoming an accredited coach for other contexts such as education, counselling or sports.

A minimum of honours degree at 2:2 or non-UK equivalent in a relevant subject. Whilst we can consider applicants from a wide range of academic backgrounds such as psychology, sociology, politics, business, linguistics, journalism, we hope to see demonstrable evidence of numeracy through statistics or maths.

We hope to see evidence of having undertaken an empirical research project or research design and analysis module. Applicants with work or project experience in a related helping professions role will be taken into consideration, please include your CV as part of your application.