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The University of York was founded in 1963, one of the first ‘plate glass’ universities of that era. It’s a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities and is one of the few collegiate universities in the UK. This means that it has 11 colleges with equal status and their own constitutions, managed by elected committees of staff and students. There are 22,000 students at the University of York, including international students from over 150 countries. What is the University of York acceptance rate for International Students? The University of York acceptance rate is 80%. Student Life Numerous specialised laboratories for academic research are located at York University too, with the University retaining a worldwide reputation for research excellence. The Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall hosts concerts and events throughout the year, along with the two art galleries located on campus: Norman Rea Art Gallery and Roslyn Lyons Art Gallery. The University of York Student Union (YUSU) provides access to student bars, social spaces, and meeting rooms.
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PhD Medieval Studies
Medieval literature explores the poetry, romance, religious writing and chronicles produced across the medieval period, and the manuscript culture that carried them. Reading is close and historically informed, attentive to older forms of language, to religion, and to how texts survived. Graduates often work in teaching, publishing, libraries and archives, heritage or research.
MA Public Administration and Public Policy
Public administration examines how governments and public organisations are run: budgets, staffing, service delivery, accountability and the implementation of policy. Students analyse cases of programmes that worked and those that failed, and why. Graduates often work in civil service roles, local government, international organisations and the non-profit sector.
Pre-sessional Courses On-campus
World Englishes studies the many forms English takes as it is used, adapted and reshaped by different speech communities. Work here covers pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and attitudes to variation, alongside questions of identity, power and standardisation. Graduates often go into language teaching, publishing, editing, research and communication roles.
PhD in Architecture
Architecture and design concern the shaping of buildings, interiors and objects, balancing function, structure, cost and the way people actually live and move. Studio projects, drawing, modelling and critique sit alongside history, theory and technical study. Graduates often work in architectural and design practices, planning and development, visualisation and construction-related roles.
MSc Public Policy and Management
Public policy is the study of how problems reach the agenda, how options are designed and chosen, and how programmes are implemented and evaluated. Students learn economics, statistics, politics and ethics, and practise writing analysis for decision-makers. Graduates often work in government, think tanks, international organisations, consultancy and advocacy.
MSc Palliative Care Implementing Best Practice (HYMS)
Rehabilitation medicine focuses on restoring function and independence after injury, illness or in long-term conditions: assessing movement, communication, cognition and daily living, then planning recovery with a team drawn from several professions. Physiology, neurology and outcome measurement all feature. It is taken up by those working in clinical services, rehabilitation research and teaching.
MSc Nursing (Mental Health)
Health care is concerned with how health services are organised, delivered and improved, taking in patient needs, clinical practice, ethics, quality and the systems holding it together. Health sciences sit alongside management and social science. Graduates often work in clinical support, health administration, public health bodies and service improvement.
MSc Mathematical Sciences
Mathematics develops precise reasoning about structure, quantity, change and uncertainty, through areas such as algebra, analysis, geometry, probability and statistics. Proof and abstraction are the core skills, and they carry over widely. Graduates often work in data and analytics, finance, software, teaching, research, and modelling roles across science and industry.
MSc Leadership Management and Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence studies how machines can perceive, learn, reason and act, covering machine learning, neural networks, language and vision, search and planning, and the ethical questions raised along the way. Mathematics and programming underpin the work. Graduates often work in machine learning engineering, research, data roles, robotics and product development.
MSc in Pharmacology and Education (HYMS)
Pharmacology asks how drugs act on living systems — at the level of molecules, cells and whole organisms — and why effects, side effects and doses differ between people. Students learn physiology, biochemistry, experimental design and how compounds are tested. Graduates often work in pharmaceutical research, clinical trials, regulation, biotechnology and academia.
MSc in Pharmacology and Drug Development (HYMS)
Pharmacology asks how drugs act on living systems — at the level of molecules, cells and whole organisms — and why effects, side effects and doses differ between people. Students learn physiology, biochemistry, experimental design and how compounds are tested. Graduates often work in pharmaceutical research, clinical trials, regulation, biotechnology and academia.
MSc in Clinical Anatomy and Education (HYMS)
Behind most diagnoses sits a laboratory result. Clinical laboratory science covers the analysis of blood, tissue and other samples: the techniques involved, quality control, and the biology that makes each test meaningful. Graduates often work in diagnostic laboratories, hospitals, public health services, research groups or the diagnostics industry.
MSc Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical engineering applies engineering to medicine and biology, designing devices, imaging systems, prosthetics, biomaterials and the instruments used in diagnosis and treatment. It sits between the laboratory, the clinic and the workshop, so technical rigour and human factors both count. Graduates often work in medical technology, research, hospitals, and clinical or regulatory engineering.
MPP Global Public Health Policy
Public health concerns the health of populations rather than individual patients: why disease spreads, which conditions cluster where, and what prevention and policy can change. It combines epidemiology, statistics, health promotion and the social causes of illness. Graduates often work in health authorities, non-governmental organisations, research and health programme management.
MPP Education Policy
Education policy studies how schooling systems are governed, funded and reformed, and what evidence says about curriculum, assessment, teacher supply and equity. Students learn to read data critically and weigh competing arguments. Graduates often work in government, school systems, research institutes, charities and international education organisations.
MA Visual Effects for Film and Television
Visual communication is about conveying ideas through image, type, layout and motion. Students develop craft in composition, colour, illustration and moving image, and learn to build a message for a particular audience across print and screen. Graduates work in graphic design, branding, art direction, editorial and digital design, advertising and animation studios.
MA Translation and Applied Technologies
Information technology is about building, running and securing the systems organisations depend on: networks, databases, cloud services, applications and user support. The emphasis leans practical, matching technology to what an organisation actually needs. Graduates often work in systems and network administration, technical support, cloud and infrastructure, security and IT project roles.
MA Music Composition for Film and TV
Composition is the craft of making new music: shaping melody, harmony, rhythm and texture, writing for voices, instruments and electronic media, and learning how a piece holds together over time. Composers write for concert performance, film, television, games and theatre, and many also teach, arrange or work in music production.
MA Leadership in Criminal Justice
Criminal justice looks at how societies define crime and respond to it, covering policing, courts, sentencing, corrections and the debates about fairness running through all of them. It draws on law, sociology and policy analysis. Graduates often move into law enforcement, probation and youth services, policy research, security or further legal study.
MA Education with Leadership and Management
Education explores how people learn, and how teaching, curriculum, assessment and school systems shape that learning. The subject draws on psychology and sociology while staying close to what happens in classrooms and institutions. Graduates often work in teaching and training, curriculum development, educational research, policy and administration.
MA Education (Mental Health and Wellbeing)
Education explores how people learn, and how teaching, curriculum, assessment and school systems shape that learning. The subject draws on psychology and sociology while staying close to what happens in classrooms and institutions. Graduates often work in teaching and training, curriculum development, educational research, policy and administration.
MA Editing for Film and Television Production
Television covers the making and understanding of screen programming: writing, producing, directing, camera, editing and sound, alongside formats, storytelling conventions, audiences and how the industry is organised. Practical production work sits at the centre. Graduates work in production companies, broadcasters and streaming services, post-production, factual and entertainment programming.
LLM International Banking and Corporate Finance Law and Practice
Finance concerns how money is raised, invested and managed, and how risk and return are priced over time. Topics run from corporate funding decisions and valuation through to markets, portfolios and financial instruments. Graduates often work in corporate finance, banking, investment and asset management, risk analysis and financial planning.
Graduate Diploma Law
Law examines the rules that govern people, organisations and states, and the reasoning used to interpret and apply them. Much of the work is close reading, building arguments and weighing competing principles. Graduates often pursue legal practice, and also compliance, policy, human rights work, business and public administration.
PhD Physics
Physics seeks the rules behind how matter, energy, space and time behave, from particles and atoms to materials, stars and the universe as a whole. Mathematical theory is paired with experiment and measurement. Graduates often move into research, engineering, data and modelling, energy, medical physics, computing and teaching.
PhD Music Technology
Engineering and technology cover the design, building and improvement of the systems, machines and processes societies depend on. Whatever the specialism, the method stays recognisable: apply mathematics and science, model the problem, test, and refine within real constraints of cost, safety and materials. Graduates work across industry, infrastructure, energy and technology development.
PhD Mathematics
Mathematics develops precise reasoning about structure, quantity, change and uncertainty, through areas such as algebra, analysis, geometry, probability and statistics. Proof and abstraction are the core skills, and they carry over widely. Graduates often work in data and analytics, finance, software, teaching, research, and modelling roles across science and industry.
PhD Law
Law examines the rules that govern people, organisations and states, and the reasoning used to interpret and apply them. Much of the work is close reading, building arguments and weighing competing principles. Graduates often pursue legal practice, and also compliance, policy, human rights work, business and public administration.
PhD in Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media
Media studies and communication analyse how messages are produced, circulated and understood across journalism, broadcasting, advertising, film and digital platforms. Students examine audiences, institutions and the making of meaning, alongside practical production skills. Graduates frequently work in content creation, public relations, marketing communication, media planning, research and cultural organisations.
PhD in Sociology
Sociology examines how societies are organised, and how class, gender, ethnicity, institutions and culture shape people's lives and choices. Students learn to gather and interpret evidence about social patterns, and to question explanations that seem obvious. Graduates often work in research, policy, social services, human resources, media and the non-profit sector.
PhD in Philosophy
Philosophy takes up questions that resist easy answers: what we can know, what makes an action right, what exists, and how language and reasoning work. The training lies in constructing arguments and finding the weaknesses in them. Graduates often work in law, policy, education, publishing, technology ethics, research and management.
PhD in Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language: how sounds, words, grammar and meaning are structured, how languages change, and how people acquire and use them. Evidence and analysis matter more than prescriptive rules. Graduates often work in language technology, speech and language services, teaching, translation, publishing, research and user experience.
PhD in Language and Communication
Language study builds fluency in speaking, reading and writing another tongue, alongside the grammar, literature and culture that give it meaning. It blends practical communication with translation and the study of how societies express themselves. Graduates commonly move into translation, teaching, international business, diplomacy, media and cultural organisations.
PhD in Health Economics
Health care is concerned with how health services are organised, delivered and improved, taking in patient needs, clinical practice, ethics, quality and the systems holding it together. Health sciences sit alongside management and social science. Graduates often work in clinical support, health administration, public health bodies and service improvement.
PhD in Environmental Geography
Environmental geography examines the relationship between people and the physical environment across different places: land use, water, climate, hazards, pollution and how communities adapt. Fieldwork, mapping and spatial data analysis are central skills. Graduates often work in environmental consultancy, planning, conservation and resource agencies, climate adaptation and research.
PhD in English with Creative Writing
World Englishes studies the many forms English takes as it is used, adapted and reshaped by different speech communities. Work here covers pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and attitudes to variation, alongside questions of identity, power and standardisation. Graduates often go into language teaching, publishing, editing, research and communication roles.
PhD in English
World Englishes studies the many forms English takes as it is used, adapted and reshaped by different speech communities. Work here covers pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and attitudes to variation, alongside questions of identity, power and standardisation. Graduates often go into language teaching, publishing, editing, research and communication roles.
PhD in Engineering Management
Manufacturing engineering is concerned with how things get made at scale: machining and forming processes, automation, factory layout, quality control and the cost of every decision. It involves designing production lines and improving them once they are running. Graduates often work in production engineering, process improvement, automation and quality assurance.
PhD in Engineering
Engineering and technology cover the design, building and improvement of the systems, machines and processes societies depend on. Whatever the specialism, the method stays recognisable: apply mathematics and science, model the problem, test, and refine within real constraints of cost, safety and materials. Graduates work across industry, infrastructure, energy and technology development.
PhD in Conservation Studies
Conservation science addresses how species, habitats and ecosystems can be protected and restored under pressure from land use, climate and human activity. Students learn ecology, monitoring methods, data analysis and the social and economic dimensions of conservation. Graduates often work with wildlife organisations, protected areas, government agencies and consultancies.
PhD in Biomedical Science
Biomedical engineering applies engineering to medicine and biology, designing devices, imaging systems, prosthetics, biomaterials and the instruments used in diagnosis and treatment. It sits between the laboratory, the clinic and the workshop, so technical rigour and human factors both count. Graduates often work in medical technology, research, hospitals, and clinical or regulatory engineering.
PhD in Archaeology
Archaeology reconstructs the past from what people left behind: settlements, tools, bones, seeds and buried structures. Excavation and survey are combined with laboratory dating and analysis to interpret how communities lived and changed. Graduates often work in field archaeology, heritage management, museums, planning consultancy and research.
PhD History
History reconstructs and interprets the past from evidence: documents, objects, testimony and data, always asking who produced a source and why. The training is in research, argument and writing rather than memorising events. Graduates often work in research, archives and museums, teaching, journalism, law, policy and administration.
PhD Health Sciences
Health care is concerned with how health services are organised, delivered and improved, taking in patient needs, clinical practice, ethics, quality and the systems holding it together. Health sciences sit alongside management and social science. Graduates often work in clinical support, health administration, public health bodies and service improvement.
PhD Electronic Engineering
Electronic engineering deals with circuits and the devices built from them, from sensors and amplifiers to embedded processors and communication systems. It covers analogue and digital design, signal processing, and the testing of hardware that must work reliably. Graduates often work in electronics design, telecommunications, semiconductors, instrumentation and embedded systems.
PhD Computer Science
At its core, computer science is about computation: algorithms, data structures, programming languages, operating systems and the theory beneath them. Mathematical reasoning and hands-on building reinforce each other throughout. Graduates often become software engineers, or move into data, security, research, product development and technical roles in almost any industry.
MSc Nursing (Adult)
Nursing centres on caring for people through illness, recovery and long-term conditions: assessing patients, delivering treatment, managing risk and supporting families. Anatomy, pharmacology and evidence-based practice join communication and ethics. Graduates often work in hospitals, community and primary care, mental health, specialist services, education and health research.
MPhil in Sociology
Sociology examines how societies are organised, and how class, gender, ethnicity, institutions and culture shape people's lives and choices. Students learn to gather and interpret evidence about social patterns, and to question explanations that seem obvious. Graduates often work in research, policy, social services, human resources, media and the non-profit sector.
MPhil in Philosophy
Philosophy takes up questions that resist easy answers: what we can know, what makes an action right, what exists, and how language and reasoning work. The training lies in constructing arguments and finding the weaknesses in them. Graduates often work in law, policy, education, publishing, technology ethics, research and management.
MPhil in Conservation Studies
Conservation science addresses how species, habitats and ecosystems can be protected and restored under pressure from land use, climate and human activity. Students learn ecology, monitoring methods, data analysis and the social and economic dimensions of conservation. Graduates often work with wildlife organisations, protected areas, government agencies and consultancies.
MPhil in Archaeology
Archaeology reconstructs the past from what people left behind: settlements, tools, bones, seeds and buried structures. Excavation and survey are combined with laboratory dating and analysis to interpret how communities lived and changed. Graduates often work in field archaeology, heritage management, museums, planning consultancy and research.
MA Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language: how sounds, words, grammar and meaning are structured, how languages change, and how people acquire and use them. Evidence and analysis matter more than prescriptive rules. Graduates often work in language technology, speech and language services, teaching, translation, publishing, research and user experience.
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