Application and admission Positive Psychology and Well-being: national procedure

If you are a student of a Non-Dutch university (regardless of nationality), you need to follow the international application and admission procedure.

Bachelor’s students of Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences

• Are you a graduate of the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (TSB) Bachelor Psychology? In order to be admitted you need to have completed one of the minors in Clinical Psychology or Lifespan and Developmental Psychology, Medical Psychology, Forensic Psychology, or Cognitive Neuropsychology.
• Are you a graduate of the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (TSB) Bachelor Psychology with a major in Work and Organizational Psychology or Social Psychology?In order to be admitted you need to have completed a minor in one of the majors mentioned before. You also need to complete the course Psychological Assessment.
• Are you a graduate of the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (TSB) Bachelor Organization Studies, Human Resource Studies, Sociology, or Global Management of Social Issues? In order to be admitted you need to have completed one of the minors in Clinical Psychology or Lifespan and Developmental Psychology, Medical Psychology, Forensic Psychology, or Cognitive Neuropsychology AND the basic psychological courses. The basis psychological courses are: Experimental Psychology, Brain and Behavior, Developmental Psychology, Psychology of Personality, Social PSychology, and  Psychopathology. 

Please contact the education coordinator of the Master’s program Psychology and Mental Health – track Positive Psychology and Well-being for more information.

Bachelor’s students of other Schools of Tilburg University

In order to be admitted you need to have sufficient knowledge:

• of the basic psychological subjects
• of specific (major) psychology courses
• in research methods and statistics

The criteria used by the Examination Board for admission can be found in the big course list.

Students with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology

• The Psychology bachelor’s programs of all Dutch universities (except University of Twente) offer sufficient basic knowledge in their programs. However, you also need to have sufficient knowledge of a number of specific (major) psychology courses.
• The criteria used by the Examination Board for admission can be found in the short course list.

Please contact the education coordinator of the Master’s program Psychology and Mental Health – track Positive Psychology and Well-being for more information.

Students with another Bachelor’s degree

In order to be admitted you need to have sufficient knowledge:

• of the basic psychological subjects
• of specific (major) psychology courses
• in research methods and statistics

The criteria used by the Examination Board for admission can be found in the big course list.

Please contact the education coordinator of the Master’s program Psychology and Mental Health – track Positive Psychology and Well-being for more information.

Students with a bachelor's degree of a University of Applied Sciences (HBO) in the Netherlands are not eligible for admission to the Master’s track Positive Psychology and Well-being. For admission a WO Bachelor (preferably Psychology) is required.

It is not possible to follow a pre-Master program in order to acquire admission to the Master's program.

The only exception applies to students who follow the so-called connecting convenant program during their studies at Fontys Toegepaste Psychologie (Eindhoven).

The admission and registration procedure starts when you enroll for the Master's Track Positive Psychology and Well-being of the MSc Psychology and Mental Health via Studielink, the Dutch national database for higher education.

Register yourself in Studielink before 1 August.

• The name of this Master's program in Studielink:
  M Psychologie en Geestelijke Gezondheid: PP&W (CROHO-code: 60076).
• Positive Psychology and Well-being is an element of CROHO-code 60076 Master Psychologie en Geestelijke Gezondheid.

Enroll via Studielink

Please note: Enter an e-mail address in Studielink that you use regularly. Tilburg University sends you important information at this address to complete your registration. Please read the documentation in the e-mail carefully and check your mailbox (and junk mail) regularly.

The Examination Board assesses whether your degree qualifies you for admission to this (Pre-)Master's program on a case by case basis. This procedure takes a maximum of six weeks. You will receive the decision of the Examination Board by e-mail.

There are three possibilities:

• (Conditionally) accepted to the Master's program
  If you are conditionally accepted, this means that you are admitted to our Master's program (on the condition that we request additional information).
• (Conditionally) accepted to a Pre-Master's program
  It is possible that you do not completely fulfill the requirements. If this is the case, we may offer you an individual Pre-Master's program to prepare you for the Master's program, provided that you send the originals or certified copies of your documents.
• Rejected
  If you do not fulfill the admission requirements, your application will be rejected. We will e-mail you personally the reasons for the rejection.

After your registration in Studielink, you will be notified by Tilburg University by e-mail and need to confirm this registration before you can start with the program.

Please read the documentation in your e-mail carefully and check your mailbox (and junk mail) regularly.