Business and Psychology

Business and psychology is a combination that takes seriously the insight that organisations are, at their core, collections of human beings. Psychology offers frameworks for understanding motivation, decision-making, group dynamics, leadership, communication, and the cognitive biases that shape how people act in professional settings. Business provides the strategic, financial, and operational context in which those insights find their application.

Together the two disciplines give you an unusually rounded understanding of what makes organisations work and what makes them fail.

At Regent's University London, a genuinely international institution in the heart of one of the world's great cities, this three-year full-time programme includes a year abroad, giving you the opportunity to study in a different national and cultural context. London itself provides an extraordinary classroom for both business and psychology, with access to major international firms, diverse communities, and a professional environment unlike anywhere else in the UK. You will study the core principles of both disciplines, including organisational behaviour, consumer psychology, marketing, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and management practice, developing both the theoretical understanding needed to think about these subjects seriously and the applied orientation that makes them useful in professional settings.

Graduates of business and psychology programmes are sought across a broad range of sectors. Human resources and people management, organisational development, marketing and consumer insight, management consultancy, and executive coaching are among the most natural career directions. The combination is particularly valued by employers who want managers and analysts who can work with both data and people, understanding the commercial context and the human dynamics simultaneously.

Postgraduate study in organisational psychology, human resource management, business, or clinical psychology is a popular next step for graduates who want to develop specialist expertise or pursue practitioner routes in applied psychology.