The Faculty of Psychology is a multidisciplinary faculty that currently teaches 1600 students and offers a substantive number of studies leading to a wide range of academic and professional qualifications. These cover a variety of disciplines, ranging from professional studies in psychology and teacher training, to bachelor and masters degrees in child welfare, gender and development, pedagogy, health promotion, psychology, work and organisational psychology and speech and language therapy. The faculty has established four graduate schools and has approximately one hundred students enrolled in the PhD program.

There is a high level of competence in research and several well established research groups. Today the faculty is located in three different buildings. Two of these buildings are situated in the middle of the downtown University campus area. The third building, containing the neuroscience unit, is located nearby the Faculty of Medicine and the University Hospital.