Career Prospects

The Degree in Psychology from Loyola University focuses on covering the needs and demands of the labor market. We are facing a complex labor situation marked by great flexibility and the intensive use of new technologies. For this reason, the circumstances as well as the variety of professional opportunities related to the main aspects of human behavior are what have been considered of major importance in the design and development of the syllabus.

Students in Psychology will have the opportunity to develop the required competencies for adequately diagnosing and intervening in different areas of human behavior:

• Clinical Psychology can be exercised in hospitals and mental health centers, in different types of specialized centers and in private offices and practices.
• School Psychology offers Educational Psychology and orientation in educational and teaching centers, as well as in centers of special education.
• Occupational or Labor Psychology is fundamental in Human Resources departments in companies.
• At the same time, Social Psychology is specifically for interventions with minors at social risk, drug addicts, battered women, people with addictive conduct, attention to older people and the elderly, ethnical minorities, etc.
• On the other hand, forensic and legal Psychology in legal settings deals with assessment in legal processes, and enabling and advising the police, criminalists or other official public security personnel in order to provide relevant psychological information for the criminal profiling of alleged perpetrators of offences.
• Sports Psychology involves educational centers, High Performance sports centers, sports teams, health centers and recreational and free time centers.
• The professional in Psychology also studies consumers’ conduct, the power and repercussions of Marketing, as well as the influence of publicity on people’s final behavior. It is growing more frequent to rely on psychologists to collaborate in Marketing departments and publicity agencies.

Internships

For the Degree in Psychology, Loyola University provides students with the opportunity to do internships in outside companies and institutions. The internships are managed by the Service of Employability and Entrepreneurship which coordinates all the processes and activities leading to the correct development of these internships, which are regulated by existing legislation and the internal regime which complements it.

Below you can find a representative example of companies and institutions that are available to us for our student internships:

• ABB Power Technology,S.A.
• ABB_ASEA Brown Boveri
• Accenture
• Adecco, Ett, S.A. (Cordoba)
• Alta Gestión, Cordoba 2
• Área Sanitaria Norte
• Arquitectos Humanos S.L.
• Asociación de Mujeres Tres Culturas
• Asociación Síndrome de Down de Córdoba
• Ayto. de Espejo
• Ayto. de Adamúz
• Ayto. de Alcaracejos
• Ayto. de Algallarín
• Ayto. de Almodóvar del Rio
• Ayto. de Añora
• Ayto. de Baena
• Ayto. de Cabra
• Ayto. de Fernán Núñez
• Ayto. de Fuente Obejuna
• Ayto. de Guadalcázar
• Ayto. de Herrera

• Ayto. de La Rambla
• Ayto. de Lébrija
• Ayto. de Montalbán
• Ayto. de Monturque
• Ayto. de Obejo
• Ayto. de Pedro Abad
• Ayto. de Pedroche
• Ayto. de Posadas
• Ayto. de Puente Genil
• Ayto. de Santaella
• Ayto. de Villafranca
• Ayto. de Villaviciosa
• C.E.E. Fepamic
• Carrefour (Córdoba)
• Centro de Formación de Conductores
• Centro De Formación SAE
• Club Baloncesto Ciudad de Córdoba
• Fremap
• Fundación Secretariado Gitano
• Randstad, Ett, S.A.

• Residencia Virgen de los Remedios
• Residencia Virgen de Luna, S.L.
• Sanidad y Residencias 21, S.A.(Sanyres)
• Trabajo Temporal Andalucía
• ETT
• Vedior Trabajo Temporal
• Manpower Team Ett Sau
• Ernst&Young
• Deloitte
• Vodafone
• Cb Richard Ellis
• Bankinter
• Barclays Bank
• Clave Consulting, Ett
• Cunext Copper Industries
• El Corte Inglés
• Endesa
• Grupo Santander
• Hospital Alto Guadalquivir
• Hospital San Agustín

To be eligible for company internships, it is necessary to have passed at least 75% of the credits of the subjects in the first three courses.

Why study Psychology?

Psychology is the science that studies human behavior, its conduct, its personality traits and its development in differing settings throughout life. By strengthening different areas of Psychology like that of Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Basic and Experimental Psychology, the students will become professionals with expertise in how to understand, interpret, analyze and explain human behavior, and have competencies and basic skills to evaluate and intervene in the individual and social environment throughout the life cycle, in order to promote and improve the health and life quality of individuals.

The curriculum in Psychology in Loyola University has an eminently practical outlook with a broad sphere of interaction in the professional world. Thus, research internships as well as professional intervention are obligatory and various elective subjects are offered in conjunction with all the existing career opportunities today, such as: in clinics; schools; occupational, social, community, forensic and judicial intervention; in sports and communication and marketing.

Furthermore, the interdisciplinary aspects of its contents allow our Degree in Psychology to combine with studies in Criminology, with which it has great synergies, giving rise to a double itinerary that leads to obtaining a dual degree.

The value of Loyola University is found within the individual, which is why its training focuses on procuring for the students a personal and profound learning experience in small groups and personalized tutorials. Foremost is the use of an active and participative methodology that is also practical and based on evidence, and that introduces the student into a type of learning where he himself is the protagonist.

Graduate in Psychology 

The proposal of Loyola University is outstanding for being the youngest, most novel, most innovative, specialized and practical in the Andalusian university panorama. As well as complying with the European Area for Higher Education (ANECA), this Degree in Psychology is a commitment to train more specialized professionals, oriented towards an international market, more critical and upholding more values.

Summing up, our objective is to train professionals to be "leaders for the world".