University of Nottingham

PhD Theology (on campus)

PhD Nursing Studies

PhD Music

PhD Art History

MSc Immunology and Immunotherapeutics

MSc Global Environmental Sustainability

MSc Education

MSc Cancer Immunology and Biotechnology

MSc Business Analytics and AI

MA Applied Linguistics

BMBS with Honours Medicine

BSc Hons Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy studies how the body moves and how injury, illness or ageing disrupts that movement. Learning blends anatomy, exercise science and clinical reasoning with hands-on assessment and rehabilitation techniques. Graduates often work with patients recovering from surgery or injury, in sports settings, in care for older people and in community rehabilitation.

PhD 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 Music Performance

Performance and literature reads texts both on the page and on the stage, asking how writing becomes voice, body and live event. Study combines literary analysis and critical theory with practical exploration of performance, adaptation and dramatic form. Graduates often go into theatre, arts programming, teaching, publishing, media and cultural work.

PhD Music Composition

Music combines performance, composition, and the study of how music is made, heard and understood across traditions. Technical craft, listening, theory and history support each other, with recording and sound technology never far away. Graduates often work as performers, composers, teachers and producers, and in arts organisations, media and the creative industries.

PhD Canadian Studies

Area studies of this kind bring history, politics, literature, geography, economics and Indigenous scholarship together to understand a country in depth: its institutions, regions and languages, its migrations and its place among neighbouring states. Comparative and archival research is common. Graduates often work in government, diplomacy, media, education, cultural organisations and research.

PhD American Studies

An interdisciplinary field that examines a society through its history, literature, politics, film and popular culture together, rather than from a narrow disciplinary angle. Students learn to interpret cultural material and argue from evidence. Graduates often work in media, publishing, education, research, communications and public and cultural institutions.

PhD American and Canadian Studies

Area studies of this kind bring history, politics, literature, geography, economics and Indigenous scholarship together to understand a country in depth: its institutions, regions and languages, its migrations and its place among neighbouring states. Comparative and archival research is common. Graduates often work in government, diplomacy, media, education, cultural organisations and research.

MPhil Theology and Religious Studies

Concerned with how religion is taught, this field covers lesson design, age-appropriate teaching methods, classroom discussion of belief, and handling difference and sensitivity among learners. Educational theory is applied to religious content. Graduates often work in schools, faith communities, curriculum development, youth work and teacher training.

Pre-sessional English courses

English studies covers the literature written in English and the workings of the language itself — how texts are built, how meaning shifts, how writing responds to its moment. Close reading, argument and clear writing are the core skills. Graduates often enter publishing, teaching, media, communications, marketing and law.

PhD Veterinary Medicine and Science

Veterinary medicine is the study of animal health and disease: diagnosis, surgery, medicines and preventive care for companion animals, livestock and wildlife. Anatomy, physiology, pathology and pharmacology are combined with clinical skills and public health. Graduates often work in veterinary practice, animal industries, research and government animal-health services.

PhD Sustainable Energy Technology

Sustainability studies looks at the relationship between human activity and the natural systems that support it — climate, water, land and biodiversity — and at how organisations and communities respond. The approach is deliberately interdisciplinary, mixing science with policy and ethics. Graduates often work in environmental consulting, corporate sustainability, advocacy and public-sector programmes.

PhD Sociology and Social Policy

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 Psychology

Psychology studies mind and behaviour: perception, memory, development, personality, mental health and how people act within groups. It is an empirical discipline, so designing research and interpreting evidence sit at its centre. Graduates often work in mental health services, research, education, human resources, user research and social services.

PhD Politics and International Relations

International relations studies how states, institutions and other actors interact: diplomacy, conflict and security, trade, development, and the rules and organisations shaping global politics. Theory and history are used to make sense of current events. Graduates often work in government and diplomacy, international organisations, humanitarian and development bodies, journalism, research and risk analysis.

PhD Pharmacology and Drug Discovery

Biotechnology uses living systems — cells, enzymes, microbes — as tools to make useful things, from medicines and vaccines to industrial enzymes and improved crops. Laboratory technique, molecular biology and bioprocessing sit at its core, along with questions of safety and ethics. Graduates often work in pharmaceutical and agricultural research, production and quality laboratories.

PhD Nutritional Sciences

Nutrition and dietetics studies how food and nutrients affect health across the lifespan, and how dietary advice is translated into practice for individuals and populations. Learning covers biochemistry, physiology, food composition and behaviour change. Graduates often work in healthcare and community nutrition, public health programmes, the food industry and health promotion.

PhD Microbiology Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

Biochemistry explains life at the level of molecules: how proteins fold and function, how cells release energy, and how genetic information becomes the machinery of an organism. Laboratory analysis sits at its centre, alongside chemistry and molecular biology. Graduates often go into research, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, biotechnology or clinical laboratories.

PhD Media and Communication

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 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 Human Factors

Ergonomics — also called human factors — studies how people interact with tools, workplaces, vehicles, and interfaces, and how design can reduce strain and error. It draws on anatomy, psychology, and engineering, and relies on observing and measuring real users. Graduates often work in product design, safety, healthcare, transport, and manufacturing.

PhD History

Human history traces how societies have lived, ruled, traded, believed and changed over long stretches of time. Rather than memorising events, the discipline trains people to work with sources, question who wrote them and why, and build arguments about causes. Graduates often move into research, teaching, heritage, journalism, law and public policy.

PhD Geography

Geography brings together physical systems such as climate, rivers and landforms with human patterns of cities, migration, development and resource use, asking how place shapes both. Mapping, fieldwork and spatial data analysis are central skills. Graduates often work in planning, environmental management, geographic information systems, development, research and logistics.

PhD Environmental Sciences

Environmental science studies natural systems and the ways human activity alters them: climate, water, soil, air and ecosystems, along with the pollution and resource pressures that connect them. Fieldwork, laboratory analysis and data modelling are the usual tools. Graduates often work in environmental consultancy, conservation, water and waste management, regulation, research and sustainability roles.

PhD Creative Writing

Creative writing develops the craft behind fiction, poetry, scripts and literary non-fiction: voice, structure, dialogue, revision, and reading the way a writer reads. Drafting and redrafting in response to honest feedback is how the craft is built. Graduates often work in publishing, editing, copywriting, screen and content work, and teaching.

PhD Classics

Classics explores the languages, literature, philosophy, art and history of the ancient world, reading surviving texts closely and interpreting material remains. The work trains careful translation, argument from fragmentary evidence and attention to how ideas travel across time. Graduates go into teaching, museums and heritage, publishing, law, research and public administration.

PhD Civil Engineering

Civil engineering covers the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment: buildings, bridges, roads, water supply, drainage and other infrastructure. Mechanics, materials and structural analysis combine with project planning and constant attention to safety and cost. Graduates often work in design consultancies, construction, transport, and water or environmental engineering.

PhD Chemistry

Chemistry studies matter: what substances are made of, how they react, and how new compounds and materials can be created and analysed. Laboratory technique and careful measurement sit alongside theory from organic, inorganic and physical chemistry. Graduates often work in pharmaceuticals, materials, energy, food and environmental testing, research and teaching.

PhD Chemical Engineering

Chemical engineering scales chemistry up from the flask to the plant, designing the reactors, separation units and control systems that turn raw materials into fuels, medicines, food and materials. Thermodynamics, fluid flow, heat transfer and process safety are core. Graduates often work in energy, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, food processing and environmental engineering.

PhD Business

Business examines how organisations are created, financed, run and grown, from managing people and money to reading markets and making decisions under uncertainty. Coursework blends analysis with practical judgement. Graduates often move into management, consulting and entrepreneurship, or into specialist roles across finance, operations and marketing.

PhD Building Technology

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.

PhD Black Studies

African American studies examines the history, literature, art, politics and social life of African American communities. Students read across disciplines, work with archives and cultural texts, and analyse how race, migration, resistance and creativity have shaped society. Graduates often move into research, teaching, public policy, media or cultural organisations.

PhD Biotechnology (Engineering)

Biotechnology uses living systems — cells, enzymes, microbes — as tools to make useful things, from medicines and vaccines to industrial enzymes and improved crops. Laboratory technique, molecular biology and bioprocessing sit at its core, along with questions of safety and ethics. Graduates often work in pharmaceutical and agricultural research, production and quality laboratories.

PhD Architecture (Social Science)

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 Architecture (Science)

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.

PhD 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 Applied Linguistics with English Language Teaching

Applied linguistics studies language as it is actually used, and applies that understanding to practical problems: how people learn additional languages, how translation and assessment work, how multilingual communities function, and how language policy is shaped. Graduates often work in language teaching and materials, testing, editing, localisation and language technology.

PhD Applied Linguistics

Applied linguistics studies language as it is actually used, and applies that understanding to practical problems: how people learn additional languages, how translation and assessment work, how multilingual communities function, and how language policy is shaped. Graduates often work in language teaching and materials, testing, editing, localisation and language technology.

MSc Supply Chain and Operations Management

This field follows goods from raw material to customer: sourcing, production planning, warehousing, transport and the information that ties them together. It involves modelling flows, controlling inventory and cost, and managing disruption across suppliers and borders. Graduates often work in procurement, logistics, operations planning and distribution.

MSc Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical engineering deals with machines and moving systems: how forces, materials, heat and fluids behave, and how to design and manufacture things that work reliably. Modelling, simulation and laboratory testing support the design process. Graduates often work in manufacturing, automotive and aerospace sectors, energy, robotics, and product design or testing.

MSc Human Resource Management and Organisation

Organizational studies looks at how groups of people coordinate, make decisions and change over time inside companies, public institutions and non-profits. Coursework draws on management theory, psychology and sociology to examine culture, structure, leadership and power. Graduates often move into consulting, human resources, operations, research and organisational development.

MSc Financial Economics

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.

MSc Electrical and 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.

MSc Economics

Economics asks how societies use scarce resources: how prices form, how households and firms decide, and how policy, trade and money shape growth, employment and inequality. Mathematical modelling and statistical evidence run through the subject. Graduates often work in analysis and consultancy, banking, government and international organisations, and research.

MSc Digital Marketing

Marketing studies how organisations understand customers and bring products and services to them, spanning research, branding, pricing, distribution, advertising and digital channels. The work blends creative thinking with data about behaviour. Graduates often work in brand and product management, digital marketing, market research, advertising, and sales or communications.

MSc Data Analytics and AI

Data science turns large and messy datasets into something useful, combining statistics, programming and machine learning with the judgement to ask sensible questions. Storage, processing at scale and clear communication of results all matter. Graduates often work as data scientists, analysts or data engineers across technology, finance, health and public services.

MSc Clinical Nutrition

Nutrition studies what food does in the body: how nutrients are absorbed and used, how diet relates to health and disease, and how eating habits are shaped by culture, income and availability. It mixes biochemistry and physiology with public health. Graduates often work in health services, the food industry, research and community nutrition programmes.

MSc Civil Engineering – Digital Construction

Civil engineering covers the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment: buildings, bridges, roads, water supply, drainage and other infrastructure. Mechanics, materials and structural analysis combine with project planning and constant attention to safety and cost. Graduates often work in design consultancies, construction, transport, and water or environmental engineering.

MSc Advanced Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Extended Research

Electrical engineering deals with electricity and electronics in all their uses: circuits, signals, power generation and distribution, control systems, communications and embedded devices. Theory, mathematics and laboratory work run together. Graduates often work in energy and power, electronics and semiconductors, telecommunications, automation, transport and product development.

MPhil Nutritional Sciences

Nutrition and dietetics studies how food and nutrients affect health across the lifespan, and how dietary advice is translated into practice for individuals and populations. Learning covers biochemistry, physiology, food composition and behaviour change. Graduates often work in healthcare and community nutrition, public health programmes, the food industry and health promotion.

MPhil Environmental Sciences

Environmental science studies natural systems and the ways human activity alters them: climate, water, soil, air and ecosystems, along with the pollution and resource pressures that connect them. Fieldwork, laboratory analysis and data modelling are the usual tools. Graduates often work in environmental consultancy, conservation, water and waste management, regulation, research and sustainability roles.

MPH Master of Public Health (Health Research)

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.

MA Special and Inclusive Education

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 Social Science Research (Political Science and International Relations)

Social transformation examines how societies change over time — through movements, policy shifts, technology, conflict and economic upheaval — and how such change can be understood and guided. Coursework blends social theory with research on power, inequality and collective action. Graduates often move into development organisations, policy analysis, advocacy, community programmes or research.

MA Politics and Contemporary History

Contemporary literature examines writing of the recent past and the present — novels, poetry, drama, essays and hybrid forms — and the cultural, political and technological currents running through them. Reading is close and argumentative, supported by critical theory. Graduates often move into publishing, media, teaching, marketing, cultural work and research.

MA International Security and Terrorism

Cyber security is about protecting systems, networks and data from attack, and understanding the people and incentives behind threats. Study covers cryptography, secure design, network defence, incident response and digital forensics, together with the habits of testing and defending real systems. Graduates often work in security operations, penetration testing, risk and governance, and consultancy.

MA Global Social and Public Policy

Social policy examines how societies respond to need through welfare, health, housing, education, pensions and employment support, and who gains or loses from the choices made. Students learn to read evidence, compare systems and evaluate what policies actually achieve. Graduates work in government, charities, research institutes, consultancy and advocacy.

LLM Human Rights Law

Human rights as a field examines the claims people hold simply by being human, and the legal and political machinery built to protect them. Law, philosophy, history and politics come together around questions of dignity, accountability and abuse. Graduates often work in law, advocacy, humanitarian organisations, research and policy.

DPP Doctor of Public Policy

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.

DPM Doctor of Public Management

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.

BSc (Hons) Finance Accounting and Management with Placement

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.

MSc Computer Science or Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)

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 Business and Management

Business administration concentrates on running an organisation as a whole: coordinating people, budgets, operations and strategy so that separate departments work in step. Attention falls on decisions that cut across functions rather than on a narrow specialism. Graduates often move into general management, operations, consulting, and planning or administrative roles across sectors.

MSc Accounting and Finance

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.

MA Research Methods (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.

LLM Technology and Intellectual Property Law

Technology policy asks how societies should govern what technology makes possible — regulation, standards, innovation and funding, privacy, safety and the uneven distribution of benefits and harms. It combines technical literacy with legal, economic and ethical reasoning. Graduates often work in government and regulators, company policy teams, think tanks, non-profits and research.