Overview

The MEd qualification is a crucial step towards professional psychological practice. The Psychology of Education programme offered by The University of Manchester can ignite or progress your career pathway within educational psychology helping you to target goals such as the Professional doctorate in Educational Psychology, a research career (for example through a research PhD) as well as supporting careers in education and school-based roles.

On this course you will benefit from our longstanding tradition of teaching and research excellence. You will acquire knowledge and skills in both psychology and education, as well as research methods. 

You will learn how to think critically and understand how psychological theory and research can inform education policy and practice. You will learn practical skills that facilitate the planning, conducting and evaluation of high-quality research through an independent empirical research project on a topic of choice aligned with psychology and education.

Career opportunities

Manchester Institute of Education (MIE) graduates go on to shape education policy and practice through positions in NGOs and in the public and private sector.

Potential careers include:

• professional roles in education (this includes teaching within primary, secondary and specialist settings);

• lecturing (FE and HE);

• research;

• teacher education;

• educational administration;

• leadership;

• consultancy;

• publishing;

• testing;

• assessment.