FAQs on admission to the Master of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (PO2020).

In principle, you apply with the average or final grade of your bachelor's degree. This grade is improved by 0.3 grade points if the following four areas of specialization were taken in the previous bachelor's program, each with a minimum of 6 ECTS: 

1. Educational Psychology
2. Clinical psychology
3. Industrial, organizational and/or business psychology
4. Environmental Psychology

Grade calculator for the "procedural grade" in the "university selection procedure" quota

According to our current status, we do not know that non-psychological institutes have changed their courses of study with regard to the new licensing regulations or will offer courses to retrain the content. However, please feel free to ask your institute. Unfortunately, the Social Work program at the University of Kassel does not contain the required content and there is no provision for post-qualification. Therefore, admission to a Master's program with a clinical focus according to the new law is not possible.

Therefore, if the relevant content cannot be acquired in the course of your studies or in a post-graduate course, you cannot be admitted to the Master's program in Kassel.

Currently, this has not yet been conclusively clarified. Since the study programs abroad usually do not implement all requirements of the new PsychThApprO, this is rather difficult. We have prepared a special form in the context of the application, in which you / or your bachelor university must prove that you have completed the contents required by the PsychThApprO in your bachelor studies. This will probably be checked for equivalence by the university and the HLPUG. You can find the special form under the tab "Application and admission". Before applying, please check yourself very carefully with the help of the special form and Annex 1 of the PsychThApprO whether you have really covered all the listed contents and otherwise please refrain from applying. Your documents can only be checked by the University of Kassel as part of the regular application process, a preliminary check is not possible. Please note that according to the current status, both required Bachelor internships (Orientation Internship and Professional Qualification Activity I) must be completed within the framework of the Bachelor degree program; the degree program may not have been completed beforehand. In addition, both internships must have been completed in Germany and must implement the requirements of the PsychThApprO. You can also find more information about the internship in the Bachelor here. There you can also download a certificate for OrPra and BQT I, on which you can have your internships certified.

We assume or hope that in the medium term countries like Switzerland, Austria or the Netherlands will also adapt their study programs to the new system. In this case, please contact your university for more information.

You must prove that you have an equivalent degree with learning outcomes that meet the requirements of the PsychThG and the licensing regulations for psychotherapists (PsychThApprO). To this end, you must prove that you have completed the required content within your degree program. The study and examination regulations, module handbook, transcript of records and degree certificate are decisive for this. Courses that were completed during the degree program but are not part of the curriculum (e.g. remedial courses, additional courses, etc.) are not part of the degree program required under § 9 PsychThG and cannot be taken into account in the examination.

There is an exception to this,  if the course of study was started by the winter semester 2020/2021 at the latest and the coursework was completed during the course of study at the same university (e.g. postgraduate courses directly at your Bachelor's university). In this case, study and examination achievements that were completed outside the curriculum can be taken into account as an exception.
 

At the University of Kassel, we offered a one-time retraining of the contents at the Institute of Psychology for our students who were enrolled at the time. No external students could participate. We do not know if there are exceptions at other institutes.

Unfortunately, this will not be possible.

When submitting your application, you must currently be able to prove at least 80% of your total credits (e.g. 144 ECTS of 180 ECTS). Please use the document "Bescheinigung zum Stand im Studium für die Bewerbung zum Masterstudium an der Universität Kassel" provided by the University of Kassel as proof. With the grade noted there, you will enter the selection process. 

If you still have open modules (e.g. the internship) or your bachelor thesis is not yet evaluated, this has no influence on your chances of admission. You can currently submit your complete bachelor's degree certificate by January 15.

The internships that conform to the requirements for licensure (Orientation Internship and Professional Qualifying Activity I) must be completed as part of the bachelor's degree program and in Germany. Therefore, the Bachelor's program may not be completed before the internships have been completed. On the part of the University of Kassel it is possible to be enrolled in parallel at another university (e.g. own Bachelor University). Please consult with the other university if it is possible from their side. Proof of the professional internships in the Bachelor's degree that are in conformity with the approval must be submitted to the University of Kassel at the latest with the submission of the final transcript documents. Until the evidence is submitted, admission is only possible with reservations. If the evidence is not submitted or does not meet the requirements of the PsychThApprO, exmatriculation will result.

Note: At the time of enrollment, you must provide proof of registration for the Bachelor thesis!

Within the framework of the transitional regulation until 2032 (and if you started your studies before 1.9.2020), this will still be possible in part. However, please be sure to check beforehand! with the state examination office of the federal state where you would like to start training whether the number of clinical credits acquired in the Bachelor's and Master's degree is sufficient for you to start training. Below you will find a list of the state examination offices.

Students who began the bachelor's degree program prior to the effective date of September 1, 2020, and transferred to the master's degree program under the new law may complete the training under the old law.

Please apply via uni-assist. 
All further information can be found here.