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How to become a Industrial Psychologist / HR Professional

Works on people at work - hiring, wellbeing, performance, organisational design.

What does a Industrial Psychologist / HR Professional actually do?

More about this career

Applies psychology to the workplace – hiring and selection, training, performance management, organisational culture – for corporate HR departments or as an independent consultant. Distinct from clinical psychology, which treats mental illness and needs a different, clinical-track degree and registration.

Where this degree can take you

  • HR Business Partner
  • Talent / Recruitment Specialist
  • Organisational Development Consultant
  • Training & Development Specialist

This is our general description of the role and related jobs, not from an official source – it’s here to give you a fuller picture, not as a careers-counselling guarantee.

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Subjects that usually help

  • Mathematics
  • Life Sciences (helpful)

This is our general guidance about which school subjects suit this career. It is not an admission requirement and not from an official source – the real requirements are on the degrees below.

Not from an official source

Where to check this yourself

What the degrees we’ve captured actually ask for

  • Mathematics – asked for by 1 of 1 degrees

Counted from the requirements below (an “or” alternative counts for each subject named). Each degree links to the page it came from.

Degrees that lead here

1 degree at 1 university. More are added as we verify them.

Stellenbosch University

Selection programme

BCom Industrial Psychology

Economic & Management Sciences · 3 years

Stellenbosch aggregate 65 %

  • Mathematics: 60%

Every Stellenbosch programme is a selection programme. The figures shown are the published minimum requirements - the actual selection threshold is usually higher.

Source: View the official page (files.su.ac.za) (opens the official page) · 2027 intake

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Put your subjects in once and we’ll check them against every degree above – scored each university’s own way.

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