FAQs on admission to the Master's in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (PO2020)

You generally apply with the average or final grade of your Bachelor's degree. This procedural grade is improved by 0.3 grade points if you have completed the following four specializations in your previous Bachelor's degree, each with at least 6 ECTS credits:

1. Educational Psychology
2. Clinical Psychology
3. Work, organizational and/or business psychology
4. Environmental psychology (see information from the DGP's Environmental Psychology specialist group for an assessment of what this means)

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

When submitting your application, you must currently be able to provide proof of at least 80% of your total credits (e.g. 144 ECTS out of 180 ECTS). Please use the document provided by the University of Kassel entitled "Certificate of progress in your studies for application to the Master's program at the University of Kassel" as proof. You will enter the selection procedure with the grade noted there.

If you still have open modules (e.g. the internship) or your Bachelor's thesis has not yet been assessed, this will not affect your chances of admission. You can currently submit your complete Bachelor's degree certificate by January 15.

The internships (orientation internship and professional qualification activity I) must be completed as part of the Bachelor's degree program and in Germany. The Bachelor's degree program may therefore not be completed before the internships have been completed. On the part of the University of Kassel, it is possible to be enrolled at another university (e.g. your own Bachelor's university) at the same time. Please contact the other university to find out whether this is possible. Proof of the professional internships in the Bachelor's program that conform to the approval requirements must be submitted to the University of Kassel at the latest with the submission of the final transcript of records. Until the evidence has been submitted, admission is only possible with reservations. If the evidence is not submitted or does not meet the requirements of the PsychThApprO, the student will be de-registered.

Please note: At the time of enrolment, you must provide proof of registration for the Bachelor's thesis!

Only applicants with a Bachelor's degree from a university or a higher education institution that is equivalent to a German university can be admitted. Ask your Bachelor's university for the relevant proof (enclose proof with your application - e.g. proof of institutional recognition by the German Council of Science and Humanities, a note of equivalence on the transcript of records or the certificate, a confirmation from the university of equivalence with the date of the notification of assessment or a copy of the notification of assessment from the ministry).

This has not yet been conclusively clarified. As the degree programs abroad do not generally implement all the requirements of the new PsychThApprO, this is rather difficult. As part of the application process, we have created a special form in which you/your Bachelor's university must prove that you have completed the content required by the PsychThApprO in your Bachelor's degree program. This will then be checked by the university and the Hessian State Office for Health and Care (HLfGP) for equivalence. You can find the special form under the "Application and admission" tab. Before applying, please use the special form and Annex 1 of the PsychThApprO to check very carefully whether you have really covered all the content listed and if not, please refrain from applying. Your documents can only be checked by the University of Kassel as part of the regular application process; it is not possible to check them in advance. Please note that, as things stand at present, both of the required Bachelor's internships (orientation internship and professional qualification activity I) must be completed as part of the Bachelor's degree course, i.e. the degree course must not have been completed beforehand and the internship must be recognizable as part of the curriculum on a certificate, transcript or transcript of records. In addition, both internships must have been completed in Germany and meet the requirements of the PsychThApprO. You can also find further information on the internship in the Bachelor's program here. There you can also download a certificate for OrPra and BQT I, on which you can have your internships certified by your internship institutions.

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

Information on the application process for international students can be found here.

As far as we are currently aware, non-psychological institutes have not changed their courses to comply with the new licensing regulations or will be offering courses to refresh the content. However, please ask at your institute. Unfortunately, the Social Work degree course at the University of Kassel does not include the required content and there are no plans for post-qualification. Admission to a Master's degree with a clinical focus is therefore not possible under the new law.

Therefore, if the relevant content cannot be acquired as part of the course (= no "license-compliant" degree), you cannot be admitted to the Master's in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy in Kassel.

You must prove that you have an equivalent degree whose learning outcomes 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.

An exception to this is 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. follow-up training 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.

Unfortunately, this will not be possible.

Within the framework of the transitional regulation until 2032 (and if you started your studies before September 1, 2020), this will still be possible in some cases. However, please check with the state examination office of the federal state where you would like to start training whether the number of clinical credits earned in your 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 started the Bachelor's degree program before the cut-off date of September 1, 2020 and switched to the Master's degree program under the new law can complete their training under the old law.