BSc Psychology with Cognitive Science: University of Sussex

About the programme

The discipline of cognitive science has emerged in the last 30 years or so, drawing on the insights gained from computer modelling of the human mind. It brings together the disciplines of psychology, linguistics, philosophy and artificial intelligence, and hence provides an excellent complementary programme to psychology.

Students studying cognitive science as part of a joint degree (ie when cognitive science occupies 50 per cent of the overall degree programme) take two cognitive science core courses per term. If you take cognitive science as a minor (ie when it occupies 25 per cent of your programme), you take one cognitive science course per term.

Admission requirements

A level

• Typical offer: AAB
• Specific entry requirements: GCSE (or equivalent) Mathematics at grade B

International Baccalaureate

• Typical offer range: 36 points overall

English language requirements

• IELTS 6.5 overall and not less than 6.0 in both the Listening and Writing sections.
• Internet-based TOEFL with 90 overall, including at least 24 in Speaking and 25 in Writing.
• The University also accepts a range of other qualifications:
  • GCSE or IGCSE English as a first language: grade C.
  • GCSE English or IGCSE as a second language: grade B.
  • Cambridge Advanced Certificate in English (CAE): grade B.
  • Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE): grade C.
  • Cambridge English Language 1119: between grades 1 and 6.