Overview

Our MSc Business Psychology with Intercultural Communication programme is a specialist master’s degree which offers you the opportunity to gain an employable skillset suited to working with multinational organisations. Our psychology graduates often build extremely rewarding careers within a range of industries.  

This programme combines business psychology’s focus on leadership, diversity, change and organisational culture with intercultural communication’s focus on written and verbal communication in cross-cultural professional contexts. You’ll develop specialist skills that will put you in the perfect position to make a positive impact on an organisation’s performance, in areas such as:  

• Job satisfaction  
• Well-being  
• Leadership  
• Organisational commitment  
• Organisational culture  
• Performance and productivity  
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Throughout MSc Business Psychology with Intercultural Communication, you’ll develop a critical understanding of the boundaries, terminology, concepts and conventions of business psychology and intercultural communication. Our degree programme provides sufficient coverage of business psychology to enable you to proceed to professional careers in private, public and third-sector organisations.   

Recent developments in research inform this degree and you’ll gain professional, transferable skills and knowledge to succeed in a career after graduation. The range of courses, including a dissertation, provides you with the flexibility to pursue your interests either as a practitioner or researcher.  

You’ll benefit from the industry relevance of the programme, which will set you up for life after graduation. Upon completion, you’ll be able to use a significant range of professional skills, techniques, practices and materials to identify, conceptualise and define new problems and issues which are central to both business psychology and intercultural communication. Beyond the subject-specific knowledge and skills, you’ll be given the opportunity to learn and practice transferrable skills such as presentation, communication, analytical and ICT skills.   

Expertise  

Our MSc Business Psychology with Intercultural Communication degree is taught by experienced, leading academics who, in many cases, have published the research which shapes their disciplines and written the books which will guide your learning. Many academics balance teaching time with continued professional practice as translators, interpreters, practitioner psychologists, tax and finance specialists and management consultants. They bring real-world experience to the classroom. 

Your learning environment   

The MSc Business Psychology with Intercultural Communication programme at Heriot-Watt University has excellent research facilities such as eye trackers, driving simulators and consistent environment labs which will support your independent research project.    

This degree is taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials and seminars involving multiple modes of learning including case studies, workshops, research papers and electronic formats. You’ll also take part in specifically designed group tasks and presentations which will allow you to develop your interpersonal and communication skills, giving you the platform to implement your expertise and directly improve the performance of diverse groups of individuals and teams at any level within an organisation.  

You’ll be assessed through a mix of formative and summative assessments. You’ll receive support and feedback throughout the programme.

Customise your learning   

Our MSc Business Psychology with Intercultural Communication provides you with training and hands-on experience in research methods that will equip you with the ability to produce new knowledge in the field of psychology.   

You’ll learn from five core courses on the syllabus, with the choice of two optional courses to focus on including psychology of leadership, diversity and psychology of marketing. This gives you the opportunity to customise your degree to match your specific interests or career pathway by selecting a specialist course option.   

In semester three, you’ll explore in-depth your chosen area of business psychology through a dissertation. You’ll critically evaluate relevant literature and psychological theories to support a rationale for your selected subject area. You’ll have the opportunity to learn and demonstrate a critical ability to use a range of techniques and research methods to produce this project. 

You can choose whether to study the programme full-time or part-time. This flexibility allows you to fit your postgraduate studies around your lifestyle.

You may have the opportunity to Go Global on our Inter-Campus Transfer. Opportunities for postgraduate study abroad are assessed on a case-by-case basis and if you are interested in studying at our Dubai campus or Malaysia campus for a semester or longer, you should contact the Go Global Team.

Industry  

We work closely with the industry to ensure our course content is up-to-date and reflects the current and emerging needs of the industry and employers. You’ll gain the right blend of knowledge, practical skills and soft skills to set you up for life after graduation.