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Information about the Admission Procedures for the Bachelor's Programme Psychology for the Academic Year 2023/2024 

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If you are interested in the Bachelor's Programme Psychology it is important to be aware of the following conditions: Each academic year, the University of Innsbruck makes the following number of study places available: 260. In order to obtain one of these places of study, you need to complete the following steps:

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Online-Registration and Payment of the Handling Fee:

1^st March till 15^th July 2023; you will find further information about the payment of the handling fee in the amount of € 50.-- in the University of Innsbruck announcement resp. the available payment terms within the online registration.

1. Registration for the Admission Procedure.
   
2. Enter your data into the system, pay the handling fee and register for the Bachelor's Programme Psychology. 
3. After you have completed the registration you can print your confirmation of registration.  

Admission test

If there are more applicants than places, an admission test will take place on 22^td August 2023. You will receive timely information about the venue and time of the test after the registration deadline.

The admission test is a written examination and includes the following components:

1. To understand simple, subject-related texts in German and English
2. Ability to formal-analytic thinking 
3. Ability to gain subject-related knowledge from literature especially for beginners. For this part of the test you have to study certain chapters of the following book (part 1):
   

Part 1: (German only)  
Maderthaner, R. (2021). Psychologie (3. Aufl.). Wien: Facultas ISBN: 978-3-38252-5540-4 

• Kapitel 02 Definition, Ziele und Positionen der Psychologie:
  S. 29 bis 39 - Abschnitte 2.1 bis 2.2
• Kapitel 03 Forschungsmethodik der Psychologie:
  S. 56 bis 63 - Abschnitte 3.1 bis 3.3
  S. 70 bis 90 - Abschnitte 3.6 bis 3.7.4
• aus Kapitel 08 Problemlösen – Denken – Intelligenz:
  S. 279 bis 291- Abschnitte 8.6

Part 2: Psychologie Skript Paris Lodron Universität (Literature will be updated until April 22nd 2023!)

 

The results of the admission test will be arranged in descending order, i.e. the best 260 applicants can be admitted for this study programme at the University of Innsbruck  if the general requirements are met according to §§ 63 and following of the Universities Act 2002. Admission to the University of Innsbruck is only possible for the winter semester 2023/2024 or the summer semester 2024. For a later admission you have to pass the admission procedures again. 

Information on the Curriculum can be found here.
The regulation of the admission procedure can be found here.

For questions please contact: aufnahmeverfahren-neu@uibk.ac.at or +43/512 507 37001