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Bachelor of Science in Counselling Psychotherapy

Phronesis International College · Ramotswa

About this programme

A four-year specialist degree that equips graduates with advanced psychotherapy skills - diagnosis of psycho-social issues, individual and group therapy, and case and stress management, with professional treatment of grief, depression and relational anxieties. It includes a supervised practical attachment and opens managerial and case-management pathways across health, social-care and corporate settings.

Entry requirement

Entry requirement: at least 32 points.

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Programme facts

QualificationBachelor of Science
InstitutionPhronesis International College
Faculty / schoolCounselling & Psychotherapy
Duration4 years
LocationRamotswa
Minimum points32
Cut-off points36
AccreditationBQA Accredited
Funding / sponsorshipGovernment sponsorship available for qualifying students (36+ BGCSE points); self-sponsored entry from 32 points.
Demand outlookHRDC forecasts about 363 openings a year in SOCIAL SCIENCES (2025). Years of backlog: not shown. Appendix 3 publishes no unemployment sector matching Social Sciences, so no figure is available. Graduates per opening: 1.59. ISCED bundles Journalism and Information with Social Sciences, so this ratio is indicative only. These openings are a forecast of need, not posts that are currently being filled. In July 2026 the Directorate of Public Service Management told Parliament's Public Accounts Committee that government "currently do not have the financial capacity to create new vacancies", and that more than 8,000 students now graduate each year while the economy is no longer creating jobs at the same pace. Government policy reserves 80% of entry-level vacancies for new graduates and is achieving about 70%. (Directorate of Public Service Management, evidence to the 62nd sitting of the Public Accounts Committee, reported by Mmegi (July 2026).) This describes the whole field, not this programme alone, and it is not a government waiting list — Botswana publishes no such figure. Source: HRDC Priority Skills Report, March 2025, Table 31 p.41; HRDC Tertiary Education Statistics Report 2024, Table 22.

Careers this programme leads to

Counsellor Psychotherapist Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner High Intensity Therapist Family Support Worker Advice Worker Mental Health Counsellor Case Manager Social Worker Clinical Counselling Assistant

Source

Published by https://www.pic.ac.bw/programmes/bachelor-of-science-in-counselling-psychotherapy/.

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