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 UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

Admission requirements New In-person and Virtual Undergraduate Applicant

To enter any of the undergraduate programs offered by María Cano, the new applicant must complete the following procedure:

1. Fill out the online registration form
2. Make the payment of undergraduate registration fees $133,900
3. At the end of the registration form, upload to the platform the following documents one by one (in PDF format) as indicated at the end:

• Photocopy of the high school degree certificate or diploma, if you have not yet completed grade 11, original study certificate, issued by the school valid for no more than one month.
• Results of the ICFES tests (Saber 11), if you do not have the results you can attach the citation to the test.
• A legible photocopy of the identity document (enlarged).
• A 3×4 size photo, light blue background.
• Documents are not received physically unless required during the admission process.

4. Print the registration payment form at the end of online registration or make payment through PSE.

*The Foundation reserves the right to admit and assign study schedules to students.