Psychology with Business and Management

Psychology and business and management is a combination that reflects an important insight: organisations are ultimately made up of people, and understanding how people think, decide, communicate, and behave under pressure is directly relevant to how businesses are run, led, and developed. Psychology provides the theoretical frameworks and research methods for understanding human cognition and behaviour, while business and management adds the organisational and commercial context in which those insights are applied.

At the University of Sussex, this three-year full-time programme, which includes a foundation year, allows you to tailor your study through a wide range of modules across different areas of psychology, from clinical and developmental to cognitive, forensic, health, social, and neuroscience. The business and management component gives you grounding in how organisations operate, covering strategy, leadership, and commercial principles. You will be supported by expert staff throughout the degree, and the range of specialist expertise available ensures that whatever your particular area of interest within psychology, you will be able to pursue it.

The programme also includes a sandwich year, a year abroad, and a work placement, giving you extensive professional and international experience alongside your academic study.

Graduates from psychology and business and management programmes are well placed in a wide range of careers. Human resources, organisational development, marketing and consumer insights, management consultancy, healthcare management, and leadership roles in the public and third sectors all value the combination of psychological understanding and business awareness this degree develops. Clinical and applied psychology routes require further postgraduate training, but the undergraduate degree provides a strong foundation.

For those interested in continuing their studies, postgraduate options are available across applied psychology, business psychology, organisational behaviour, and related fields.