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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Cambridge — Admissions Guide 2027

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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences（University of Cambridge）出願に必要なすべて：出願要件・面接・典型オファーとCambridge卒業生によるインサイダーアドバイス。

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主要情報

  • A*A*A典型オファー
  • 8:1志願者 / 定員
  • #1UK順位
  • 79定員（年）
  • C800UCAS コード

概要

コース概要

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Cambridge is a three-year BA (Hons) with UCAS code C800 and a minimum offer level of A*A*A or IB 41–42 with 776 at HL. The course moves from Part IA to Part IB and Part II, with College-set assessment details for some applicants rather than a centrally registered test.

なぜCambridgeでPsychological and Behavioural Sciencesを?

Cambridge Psychological and Behavioural Sciences is the official course title on the current Undergraduate Study page.

A university lecture hall from the back, students taking notes

Section 01

国際学生の出願

下のマップで自国をクリックすると、出願に必要な情報（受け入れられる資格、要求スコア、英語要件、現地の文脈）が表示されます。

International Applicants

Country-specific admissions requirements

FijiTanzaniaW. SaharaCanadaUnited States of AmericaKazakhstanUzbekistanPapua New GuineaIndonesiaArgentinaChileDem. Rep. CongoSomaliaKenyaSudanChadHaitiDominican Rep.RussiaBahamasFalkland Is.NorwayGreenlandFr. S. Antarctic LandsTimor-LesteSouth AfricaLesothoMexicoUruguayBrazilBoliviaPeruColombiaPanamaCosta RicaNicaraguaHondurasEl SalvadorGuatemalaBelizeVenezuelaGuyanaSurinameFranceEcuadorPuerto RicoJamaicaCubaZimbabweBotswanaNamibiaSenegalMaliMauritaniaBeninNigerNigeriaCameroonTogoGhanaCôte d'IvoireGuineaGuinea-BissauLiberiaSierra LeoneBurkina FasoCentral African Rep.CongoGabonEq. GuineaZambiaMalawiMozambiqueeSwatiniAngolaBurundiIsraelLebanonMadagascarPalestineGambiaTunisiaAlgeriaJordanUnited Arab EmiratesQatarKuwaitIraqOmanVanuatuCambodiaThailandLaosMyanmarVietnamNorth KoreaSouth KoreaMongoliaIndiaBangladeshBhutanNepalPakistanAfghanistanTajikistanKyrgyzstanTurkmenistanIranSyriaArmeniaSwedenBelarusUkrainePolandAustriaHungaryMoldovaRomaniaLithuaniaLatviaEstoniaGermanyBulgariaGreeceTurkeyAlbaniaCroatiaSwitzerlandLuxembourgBelgiumNetherlandsPortugalSpainIrelandNew CaledoniaSolomon Is.New ZealandAustraliaSri LankaChinaTaiwanItalyDenmarkUnited KingdomIcelandAzerbaijanGeorgiaPhilippinesMalaysiaBruneiSloveniaFinlandSlovakiaCzechiaEritreaJapanParaguayYemenSaudi ArabiaAntarcticaN. CyprusCyprusMoroccoEgyptLibyaEthiopiaDjiboutiSomalilandUgandaRwandaBosnia and Herz.MacedoniaSerbiaMontenegroKosovoTrinidad and TobagoS. Sudan

Pick a highlighted country to see the admissions-test, score, and English-language requirements that apply for applicants from that country.

Section 02

出願要件

  • A-LevelA*A*A
    Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science, Psychology recommended.
  • IB Diploma40–42 with 776 at HL
  • Advanced Placement (AP)Minimum five AP Tests at score 5 in subjects relevant to the course, plus strong SAT or ACT results and high High School Diploma performance.
Admissions test
No admissions assessment for 2027 entry — confirmed against the official Cambridge admissions-test table. Most colleges set a short at-interview reasoning task as part of the College admission assessment, no advance registration. Cambridge does not offer a standalone Psychology degree — PBS is the canonical course.
Interview
Two college interviews. Expect numerical reasoning and experimental-design questions alongside discussion of recent reading. Cambridge PBS is more quantitative than most UK psychology degrees — be ready to interpret a graph or design a small study.

Section 03

出願プロセスと重要日程

Jun–Jul 2026

Open days & shortlist colleges

Visit Cambridge in person if you can. Open days run in late June and early July. Begin narrowing your college list and reading first-year reading lists.

Sep 2026

Draft your personal statement

Write for the subject, not the institution. Cambridge admissions tutors look for ~80% academic content and genuine super-curricular engagement.

28 Sep 2026

ESAT / TMUA registration deadline

Pre-registration via the Pearson VUE admissions testing portal closes at 18:00 UK time. Late entry is not normally possible.

15 Oct 2026

UCAS deadline

Submit your UCAS application by 18:00 UK time on 15 October 2026.

12–16 Oct 2026

Sit ESAT / TMUA

ESAT and TMUA are sat in this window at Pearson VUE centres. LNAT and UCAT use their own test windows — check each test's site for booking dates.

22 Oct 2026

My Cambridge Application deadline

Complete the My Cambridge Application supplementary questionnaire by 18:00 UK time on 22 October 2026. This replaced the old SAQ.

10 Nov 2026

Submitted written work deadline

Most arts and humanities courses ask for one or two pieces of marked school work. Each college confirms its exact deadline; 10 November is the standard date.

Dec 2026

Interviews

Around three-quarters of applicants are interviewed. Typically 1–2 interviews of 25–45 minutes each at your chosen or allocated college.

27 Jan 2027

Main decisions released

Cambridge releases its main decisions on 27 January 2027. Around a quarter of offers are made through the Winter Pool — strong applicants reconsidered by colleges with remaining places.

Section 04

入試テスト

Student working through problems at a desk with timed papers

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences（University of Cambridge）の2027年度入試では、出願者に書面の入試テストは課されません。出願は推薦書・成績・パーソナルステートメント・提出物・面接で評価されます。

Always verify on the official Oxford admissions tests page.

Section 05

面接:当日の流れと対策

Invitation → Decision: the interview timeline

Interview Invitation

Late Nov

Arrival to Interview

Early Dec

Technical Question

Mid Dec

Decision

Early Jan

Question Types You’ll See

Interpretation of a small data set or graphExperimental-design problemDiscussion of your personal-statement reading

Cambridge describes interviews as academic conversations.

The interview may ask you to discuss academic interests, respond to unfamiliar material, and reason aloud in an academic conversation.

What matters is not sounding polished. It helps to slow down, define terms, test an explanation, and adjust when the interviewer gives you a new piece of information.

無料のPsychological and Behavioural Sciences面接練習問題バンクで本番さながらの問題を練習しましょう。

無料練習問題 →
Two people in academic discussion across a table

Section 06

合否決定のしくみ

Cambridge describes admissions decisions as holistic and based on all available information.

The decision-weight percentages in the visual are indicative — Cambridge does not publish numerical weightings, because Cambridge does not publish numerical weights.

In reality, PBS applicants need evidence across the file: subject preparation, clear thinking, good academic trajectory and enough flexibility to handle unfamiliar material.

Our recommendation · weighting of admission factors

0102030405046%
Interview
31%
Predicted grades
15%
Personal statement
8%
Contextual factors
% of decisionFactor

Oxbridge Mentors recommendation, drawn from observed offer patterns. University of Cambridge does not publish official weightings — exact balance varies by college, course and year.

Section 07

Personal Statement のコツ

Handwritten notes and a laptop open to a draft document

Do not make the personal statement a list of famous experiments. Use one or two ideas to show how you think.

A strong PBS paragraph usually starts with a question, gives the evidence you read, and then explains what became more complicated. That is better than saying you have always been fascinated by people.

The course overlaps with anthropology, neuroscience, philosophy and sociology, so it helps to show how you handle connections between disciplines.

Use school psychology, biology, maths or social-science work carefully. The point is not to prove you already know the degree; it is to show that you can ask a precise question and follow evidence.

専門家による一行一行の解説付き完全例文を見る。

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences PS例文 →

Section 08

プロジェクト

  1. 01正当性
  2. 02プロジェクト概要
  3. 03実施内容
  4. 04困難
  5. 05解決策
  6. 06振り返り

A useful PBS project is not large or dramatic; it is controlled enough for you to explain methods and limits.

Do not overclaim from a tiny sample. Reflection matters more than pretending your project proves a general law of behaviour.

  • Replicate a classic cognitive effect ethically: Design a small, low-risk study around a well-known effect such as Stroop interference, framing, anchoring or memory recall. Focus on hypothesis design, controls, consent, anonymised data, confounds and cautious interpretation.
  • Behaviour-change evidence review: Choose one everyday behaviour, such as sleep hygiene, phone use, exercise adherence or procrastination. Compare psychological theories and empirical studies, then propose a modest intervention and how you would evaluate it.
  • Developmental or social psychology research map: Track how one question is studied across laboratory experiments, surveys, longitudinal work and cross-cultural research.
Open books, a notebook, and a coffee on a wooden desk

Section 08

その他のサプリキュラム

Other supercurricular work should strengthen your thinking, not decorate the application.

These are support, not substitute. A weaker activity becomes useful when you can analyse it carefully.

  • Primary-research reading:

    Move beyond popular psychology by reading abstracts, methods and limitations sections from journal papers.

  • Research methods and statistics:

    Build confidence with variables, correlations, sampling, p-values, effect sizes and replication.

  • Ethics and consent:

    When doing any independent project, avoid sensitive personal data and clinical claims.

  • Interdisciplinary links:

    Connect psychology to neuroscience, anthropology, philosophy, education, sociology or computational modelling.

  • Reflective volunteering or observation:

    Volunteering can be useful if reflection stays analytical.

  • Writing and discussion:

    Practise short essays that weigh evidence on both sides of a behavioural claim.

Section 08

コンペティション

Competitions are not required, but they can stretch your writing, research habits and evidence evaluation. Choose one that genuinely develops your PBS thinking.

  1. John Locke Institute Global Essay Prize — Independent argument and essay writing. Choose a behavioural or psychology-adjacent question and build a source-led argument.
  2. Trinity College Cambridge Essay Prizes — Academic essay writing for school students. Use it as practice in disciplined, source-led argument.
  3. UK Brain Bee — Neuroscience knowledge for secondary/high-school students. Work through brain and nervous-system fundamentals.
  4. British Biology Olympiad — High-level biology reasoning relevant to biological psychology/neuroscience. Prioritise neurobiology, evolution and experimental interpretation.
  5. Nuffield Research Placements — Research curiosity and project experience. Apply with a focused research interest and reflect on methods and limitations.

None are required; one or two done well beats five half-attempted.

Section 09

コース内容

  1. Year

    01 / 03

    1

    Part IA

    Foundations in psychology and behavioural science

    You take a total of 4 papers. Three papers are compulsory and one further paper is chosen from around 9 options.

    Compulsory paper: From Subjective Questions to Objective Science.

  2. Year

    02 / 03

    2

    Part IB

    Specialised training and preparation for research

    You take a total of 4 papers. Two papers are compulsory and two further papers are chosen from a broad range.

    Continued research-skills development for the third-year project.

  3. Year

    03 / 03

    3

    Part II

    Advanced options and independent research

    You complete a research dissertation of 7,000 words and choose a further 3 papers from the available selection.

    Research dissertation of 7,000 words on a psychology topic of your choice.

Section 10

Psychological and Behavioural Sciencesの知識を深める

Thinking, Fast and Slow is useful for judgement and decision-making, while Social Cognition: From Brains to Culture gives a tighter route into social cognition.

YaleCourses hosts Paul Bloom's psychology lectures, CrashCourse gives short reviews of core psychology topics, and American Psychological Association gives research and applied psychology context.

Speaking of Psychology and Under the Cortex are better for research-led topic choice than generic psychology clips.

Introduction to Psychology and Starting with psychology are structured starting points for broad psychology foundations and the vocabulary needed to discuss methods, evidence and limitations.

A good preparation pattern is one book, one lecture series and one research-methods habit. After each resource, write short notes on method, evidence and limitations.

A study planner, highlighters and a stack of revision cards

Section 11

カレッジ選択と再振り分け

29 colleges offer this subject. 19% of places come through the pool.

PBS is available at all Colleges except Peterhouse on the current course page.

College choice affects where you are assessed first and can affect practical details such as interview format, College-specific assessment and submitted-work instructions.

Cambridge's Winter Pool is an inter-College moderation process, and around 19% of October 2024 applications were placed in the Winter Pool.

Choose a College for practical fit, not for a guessed admissions advantage. The safer question is whether you understand its PBS assessment and submitted-work requirements.

Stone college quadrangle viewed through an archway

Section 12

卒業後のキャリア

The official course-page careers context also includes media, management, the Civil Service, finance, law and business.

Use this section carefully: PBS is useful preparation for many routes, but professional psychology normally requires further accredited training after the undergraduate degree.

Section 13

特別な事情について

Cambridge uses contextual data to assess applicants in context, but contextual flags do not guarantee an interview, offer or lower conditional offer.

Academic achievement remains central.

Individual circumstances can be supplied through the UCAS reference or, where needed, Cambridge's disrupted-studies route.

Watch & Learn

Cambridge Psychological and Behavioural Sciences 参考動画

学生ブログ・模擬面接・講義体験・入試アドバイス。

1. Introduction

Paul Bloom introduces Yale's Psychology 110.

2. Foundations: This Is Your Brain

Lecture linking identity, brain function and psychological explanation.

Intro to Psychology: Crash Course Psychology #1

Overview of psychology's questions, approaches and scope.

Psychological Research: Crash Course Psychology #2

Introduces research design and testable questions.

The Chemical Mind: Crash Course Psychology #3

Introduction to neurotransmitters and biological bases of behaviour.

All videos are the property of their respective creators.

Further Reading

Recommended Resources

専門講師が推薦するSupercurricular読書リスト・ウェブサイト・ツール。

  • Cambridge PBS course page by University of Cambridge[Website]Primary page for current PBS structure, entry guidance, teaching and careers.
  • Introduction to Psychology by Paul Bloom / Open Yale Courses[Course]Structured free starting point for broad psychology foundations.
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman[Book]Recommended for judgement, decision-making and behavioural-science discussion.
  • Speaking of Psychology by American Psychological Association[Podcast]Research-led podcast for current psychology topics.
  • Social Cognition: From Brains to Culture by Susan T. Fiske and Shelley E. Taylor[Book]Useful for social psychology and person perception.
  • UK Brain Bee by UK Brain Bee[Website]Relevant enrichment for neuroscience and behaviour.
  • Starting with psychology by OpenLearn / The Open University[Course]Accessible introductory course for building core psychology vocabulary before moving into Cambridge-level methods, evidence and interdisciplinary PBS reading.

よくあるご質問

UCAS course code: C800. Course title: Psychological and Behavioural Sciences, BA (Hons). Course length: 3 years.
Cambridge lists PBS under 'College admission assessment'. You don't need to register in advance; details are provided by the relevant College.
Cambridge has a 'Submitted work' section for PBS. Robinson requires one piece; Magdalene, Murray Edwards, Pembroke and St Edmund's require 2 pieces. No portfolio is required..
Cambridge says most applicants will have 1 or 2 interviews lasting 35 minutes to an hour in total.
In the 2024 Cambridge admissions statistics, Psychological & Behavioural Sciences had 837 applications, 108 offers and 72 acceptances. That is 11.6 applications per acceptance.
UCAS application deadline: 15 October 2026, 6pm UK time. My Cambridge Application deadline: 22 October 2026, 6pm UK time.
the official Cambridge guidance shows a fallback Cambridge English summary of IELTS Academic 7.5 overall, usually with 7.0 in each element, plus other accepted routes. Because The official Cambridge guidance marks this as partial/fallback guidance, applicants should check Cambridge’s current English-language requirements and their College instructions.
Cambridge states that PBS is accredited by the British Psychological Society and that graduates with at least second-class honours receive the graduate recognition needed for professional psychology routes. Graduates also move into research, health, social/community/charity work, further study and broader sectors such as media, management, Civil Service, finance, law and business.

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