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MSc Business Psychology with Coaching (based in Dubai)

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    MSc: 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Course Description

Coaching Psychology is a thriving area of applied psychology which deals with professional and personal issues in a practical way. There is a growing demand for experts in evidence-based coaching who can offer effective non-clinical interventions to help individuals and teams by increasing productivity, managing talent, and dealing with conflict, stress and change. This demand exists across a number of sectors and areas of performance including: occupational, educational, health, counselling, sport psychology, leadership, management, organisational development and human resources.

Entry Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Honours Degree Students will typically have a first or second class Honours degree (or equivalent four-year qualification).
  • Bachelor’s Degree Students completing a non-Honours degree and who have several years of relevant additional work experience may be considered for entry to the Postgraduate Diploma, which may lead to registration for the MSc qualification pending the successful completion of assessments.
  • Non-graduate applicants with significant senior managerial experience may be considered in exceptional circumstances.

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Fees

AED 78000

Student Destinations

The practical, and theoretical focus of the programme ensures that graduates are able to make a positive and effective contribution through coaching practice with learning from Business Psychology. This may be through taking the degree into a career in coaching in the workplace or as a step to becoming an accredited Coach in other contexts such as Education, Counselling, or Sports. The skills developed through the programme can be applied in the workplace through various wider roles e.g., management, consultancy, HR, as well as through specific coaching roles e.g., Executive Coach, Talent Management, Career Coaching, Mentoring.

Module Details

Semester 1

  • Coaching Psychology 
  • Social and Organisational Change
  • Organisational Culture
  • Intercultural Communication in the Workplace

Semester 2

  • Coaching Psychology Practice
  • Diversity
  • Leadership
  • Research Methods

+ Psychology for Business Masters Project (typically semester 3)

Dissertation

Heriot-Watt University Campus

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