Bachelor of Psychological Science
at Bond University, Queensland.
A two-year (six-semester) psychology degree at the Gold Coast, recognised by APAC as the first three years of the psychology training pathway. Bond lists a guide ATAR of 65 and published no January 2026 ATAR profile (fewer than five ATAR enrolments). Bond admits directly rather than through QTAC selection ranks, so no lowest selection rank is published.
Lowest selection rank
Bond has not published a lowest selection rank for this course for recent intakes. That usually means too few ATAR-based offers were made to report one, or that selection also uses a portfolio, audition, interview or other criteria. Check the current entry requirements on the official course page.
Prerequisite Year 12 subjects
No formal Year 12 subject prerequisites; assumed knowledge may still apply.
What you will study
Students study memory, learning, motivation, biological, personality, developmental, social and abnormal psychology, then move into cognitive and cross-cultural psychology, psychopathology and research methods. Electives include neuropsychology, forensic psychology and positive wellbeing.
Career outcomes
- Graduates work in support roles in mental-health services, drug-and-alcohol clinics and community-services organisations.
- Common destinations include human-resources, market-research and user-experience research positions across the private sector.
- Most alumni continue into a fourth-year Honours programme and the Master of Psychology to register as a psychologist.
Professional accreditation
- Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC)
Typical first jobs
- Mental-health or disability support worker
- Research assistant in a university or institute
- Human-resources or recruitment officer
- Market or user-experience research assistant
- Case worker in a community-services organisation
- Behaviour-support or youth-work officer
- Program or project officer in health or welfare
Graduate starting salary
$58,000 - $68,000 per year
Source: qilt.edu.au. Last reviewed 2026-05-24.
After graduation
Bond says the full pathway to registration as a psychologist can be completed in four years and eight months, through its honours and postgraduate psychology programs.
Is this the right degree for you?
You probably thrive here if
- Students curious about why people think and behave as they do
- People comfortable with statistics and research methods
- Careful writers who can report data clearly
- Students committed to the long pathway toward registration
- Self-starters who want to reach Honours sooner
It is probably not for you if
- Students expecting therapy practice with no statistics
- People wanting a creative or studio-based degree
- Those who dislike research methods and data analysis
- Students who struggle with a fast, year-round study load
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Sources
Course details are summarised by ExamExplained, not copied from the university. Confirm course content and selection ranks on the Bond University website before applying.