Psychology

Psychology is a discipline that studies the behavior and relationships of the human being from a biopsychosocial approach, with the intention of generating a balance in the areas where it intervenes: organizational, clinical, educational, sports and community social. Its performance tends to respond to the demand, the needs of the moment and the advances of new technologies that allow active participation in the processes of transformation and change in the country. The psychology program assumes a commitment to the place of psychology in health, strengthening a differentiated role in society.

High Quality Accredited Program

Addressed to:

Bachelors or their equivalent abroad who have taken the State exam for admission to Higher Education. Additionally, the applicant must show a preferential interest in the social and human sciences, assume himself as a person sensitive to the reality of the society in which he lives, with a spirit of service and adaptability to changes.

Professional profile

A professional with human quality, rational, critical and fundamentally ethical, with organizational psychology skills, clinical, educational and social community skills, capable of knowing, investigate, diagnose, assess and transform reality.

A professional with integrity, serving as a consultant, researcher, therapist, administrator and agent of change in the human and social development; committed to preventing diseases, a constant promoter of health and welfare, with ecological awareness and educated in order to respond to epistemological requirements, contextual, philosophical and ethical issues of its object of study.

Occupational profile

In the International Uniform Classification of Occupations Adapted for Colombia, the psychologist is in the primary group 2445 that has the action of studying human beings in terms of their behavior, normal and pathological and guiding on the most appropriate intervention according to the type of problem they present, in order to promote adaptation and development, both individual and social.

Occupational fields include: clinical psychology, educational psychology, sports psychology, and organizational psychology.

The María Cano Psychology program is an academic proposal that is articulated to the permanent transformation of the discipline, to an analysis of the local, national and international offer and to the observation of the mental health needs currently evidenced in the country. It is a program that supports the curricular transformation of its study plan in the institutional purpose of training professionals who recognize themselves as autonomous beings, with the ability to make decisions, to direct their training and learning process and to build their life project; therefore, they inquire, question, seek information, generate spaces for conversation, recognize their own abilities and put them at the service of others. Psychologists are people with critical thinking, social commitment and glocal vision. The Psychology program of the María Cano University Foundation is also distinguished by its social responsibility, reflected in the professional quality of its graduates and the contribution it makes to the quality of life of the community.

Admission requirements:

1. Go to www.fumc.edu.co, click on the admissions button, select undergraduate registration according to the required modality and fill out the online registration form.
2. Upon completion of the registration form, upload the following documents in pdf format to the platform:
• Authenticated photocopy of the baccalaureate degree certificate or diploma, if the 11th grade has not yet been completed, original study certificate, issued by the school with a validity of no more than one month.
• Results of the ICFES tests (Saber 11)
• A legible photocopy of the identity document (enlarged).
• A 3×4 size photo, light blue background.
• No physical documents are received unless they are required during the admission process.
3. At the end of the online registration, Print the payment form or make the payment through PSE.
4. Present virtual interview.
5. Consult the list of admitted candidates published on the institutional portal or go to the Admissions Office.
*The María Cano University Foundation reserves the right of admission and to assign study hours to students.