Faculty of Education and Psychology
The faculty combines the university's strong tradition in education with recognised expertise in psychology.
The faculty is a strong educator in its fields of study. The Department of Psychology trains about a third of all psychologists graduating in Finland. In education, especially teacher training, the faculty is one of the largest trainers in the country, and in special education it is the largest in terms of the number of graduates.
Departments of the Faculty
Research and training centres
The Centre of Excellence for Learning Dynamics and Intervention Research (InterLearn) investigates the links between children's learning and mental health, and the factors that explain the effectiveness of learning support interventions.
Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research (CIBR) provides research facilities and support for neuroscientific research across different disciplines.
The Methodology Centre for Human Sciences offers to the University of Jyväskylä's doctoral students and researchers training and events on research methodology across faculty boundaries.
The Psychotherapy Training and Research Centre provides therapy services and trains undergraduate and postgraduate students, organizes continuing education programmes, and produces research on psychotherapy and psychological treatment processes.
The purpose of Teacher Training School is to provide basic education, upper secondary education, and supervised teacher training as part of teacher training.
News from the Faculty of Education and Psychology
Become an expert in learning and the human mind.
The Faculty of Education and Psychology offers high-quality studies in education and psychology. The faculty's studies combine a sense of community, practicality, and theory. We teach you to think fresh and experiment boldly.
Doctoral School in the Faculty of Education and Psychology
The doctoral programmes in the Faculty of Education and Psychology are Doctoral programme in education (KASTO), Doctoral programme in psychology (PSYTO), and Doctoral programme in cognitive neuroscience (KOGNETO).
Students belong to one doctoral programme, but they may choose to participate in activities organised by multidisciplinary, nationally or internationally networked doctoral training networks and research communities.
In addition to the Faculty of Education and Psychology, which awards the degrees, the Educational Research Institute and the Chydenius University Centre in Kokkola are also involved in the doctoral training.
Building well-being and competence
The research strengths identified by the faculty in its strategic work are: learning, interaction and well-being. In line with these, the Faculty's mission is Learning and well-being as a builder of a sustainable future society.