Program Overview

Heriot-Watt University's Masters degree in Business Psychology is the most established of its kind in Europe. In this MSc, core modules from Business Psychology are blended with expertise from the field of Intercultural Communication.

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

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.