University College Cork
University College Cork was founded in 1845 as one of three Queen’s Colleges across Ireland - the other two were in Belfast and Galway. In 1908 it became University College, Cork before losing the comma 90 years later. Today it hosts around 20,000 students with more than 3,000 of them international students from over 104 countries. It has been named as the "Irish University of the Year" by the Sunday Times in 2003, 2005, 2011 and 2016. It ranked just outside the top 300 global universities in the QS World University Ranking and inside the top 300 in the Times Higher Education World University Ranking. It has also been ranked in the top 4.5% of the world’s universities for impact. What is the University College Cork acceptance rate for International Students? The University College Cork acceptance rate is 41%. Student Life The university has a new Student Hub that really is the hub of student life in Cork, located right next to its famous Quad. It’s the base for all 100 clubs and societies plus student advisory services and media outlets. Best of all, its social spaces offer stunning views out across the campus and city. An international survey conducted by International Graduate Insight Group ranked University College Cork 1st in Ireland for its sporting facilities. It has the Mardyke Arena which offers a pool, basketball court, climbing wall and more and there are 59 sports clubs at the university. University College Cork has been voted both the safest campus in Ireland and one of the safest in the world. According to an international survey conducted by studyportals.com and the International Graduate Insight Group, it also received an ‘Excellent International Student Satisfaction Award.
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PGDip Youth Work
Social development studies how communities improve wellbeing — education, health, livelihoods, equality and social protection — and how change is planned, funded and evaluated. Coursework mixes social science with practical tools for working alongside communities and institutions. Graduates often work in development organisations, government programmes, non-profits and research.
PGDip Social Work Studies
Social work supports people facing hardship — family difficulty, disability, poor mental health, poverty, abuse or needs that come with age — and connects them with services and protection. Human development, law, policy and ethics join the practical skills of assessment and intervention. Graduates often work in child and family services, mental health, community organisations and local government.
PGDip Planning and Sustainable Development
Sustainable development studies how human needs — energy, food, housing, work — can be met without exhausting the systems everyone depends on. It draws on economics, environmental science, governance and social equity, and asks who bears the cost of each choice. Graduates often work in development organisations, environmental programmes, policy analysis and corporate responsibility.
PGDip 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.
PGDip/MSc Nursing - Trauma and Emergency Nursing
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.
PGDip/MSc Nursing - Specialist Mental Health Nursing Practice
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.
PGDip/MSc Nursing - Intensive Care Nursing
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.
PGDip/MSc Nursing - Gerontological Nursing
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.
PGDip Chemistry - Analytical 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.
PGDip Ancient Medieval Languages
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.
MSW Social Work
Social work supports people facing hardship — family difficulty, disability, poor mental health, poverty, abuse or needs that come with age — and connects them with services and protection. Human development, law, policy and ethics join the practical skills of assessment and intervention. Graduates often work in child and family services, mental health, community organisations and local government.
MSc Radiation Therapy
Internal medicine deals with the diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of illness in adults, spanning the heart, lungs, kidneys, digestive and hormonal systems. Its centre of gravity is clinical reasoning: reading symptoms and test results to work out what is actually wrong. Graduates often work in hospital and clinic settings, specialty practice, teaching and clinical research.
MSc 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.
MSc Pharmaceutical Regulatory Sciences
Pharmaceutical sciences covers how medicines are discovered, formulated, tested and controlled: the chemistry of drug molecules, how the body absorbs and clears them, and what makes a dose safe and stable. Laboratory work and analysis run throughout. Graduates often work in drug development, formulation, quality control, regulatory affairs and research.
MSc Older Person Rehabilitation
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.
MSc MSc Nursing (Non-EU)
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.
MSc Microbiome Science
Microbiology studies bacteria, viruses, fungi and other organisms too small to see: how they live, how they cause disease, and how they are used in medicine, agriculture and industry. Laboratory technique is central, from culturing and identification to genetics and analysis. Graduates often work in clinical and research laboratories, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and food safety.
MSc 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 Management and Marketing
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.
MSc International Sustainable Business
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.
MSc International Public Policy and Diplomacy
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 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.
MSc Information Systems for Business Performance
Information systems sits between technology and the organisations that use it, covering how databases, networks and software are selected, integrated and governed to support real business processes. Systems analysis, data management and project delivery are core concerns. Graduates often work as systems analysts, IT consultants, database administrators and technology project leads.
MSc in Industrial Pharmaceutical Sciences, Operations and Management
Pharmaceutical sciences covers how medicines are discovered, formulated, tested and controlled: the chemistry of drug molecules, how the body absorbs and clears them, and what makes a dose safe and stable. Laboratory work and analysis run throughout. Graduates often work in drug development, formulation, quality control, regulatory affairs and research.
MSc Human Resource Management
Human resources focuses on how organisations recruit, develop, reward and retain people, and how workplace culture, employment law and wellbeing affect performance. The subject draws on psychology, employment relations and management practice. Graduates often work in recruitment, learning and development, employee relations, compensation and benefits, and wider people or operations roles.
MSc Human Anatomy
Every clinical judgement rests on knowing how the body is put together. Anatomy is the detailed study of organs, tissues, bones, vessels and nerves, and of how structure relates to function, learned through specimens, models and imaging. Graduates often work in health professions, biomedical research, teaching, medical illustration or science communication.
MSc Geoninformatics
Remote sensing is the practice of observing the Earth from a distance, using satellites, aircraft, and drones to gather images and signals about land, water, and atmosphere. Study covers sensors, image processing, and turning raw data into usable maps. Graduates often work in environmental monitoring, agriculture, urban planning, defence, and geospatial industries.
MSc Geology - Applied Environmental Geoscience
Geology reads the Earth as a record: rocks, minerals, fossils and structures that reveal how the planet formed and keeps changing. Field observation and laboratory analysis are used to interpret landscapes, map subsurface layers and assess natural hazards and resources. Graduates often work in energy, mining, groundwater, environmental consulting and geological survey work.
MSc Food Science
Food science applies chemistry, microbiology and engineering to what we eat: how ingredients behave, how products are preserved, and how safety and quality are controlled from processing to shelf. Laboratory analysis of formulation and composition is a common part of the work. Graduates often work in product development, quality assurance, food safety and manufacturing.
MSc Food Microbiology
Microbiology studies bacteria, viruses, fungi and other organisms too small to see: how they live, how they cause disease, and how they are used in medicine, agriculture and industry. Laboratory technique is central, from culturing and identification to genetics and analysis. Graduates often work in clinical and research laboratories, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and food safety.
MSc Food Business and Innovation
Food science applies chemistry, microbiology and engineering to what we eat: how ingredients behave, how products are preserved, and how safety and quality are controlled from processing to shelf. Laboratory analysis of formulation and composition is a common part of the work. Graduates often work in product development, quality assurance, food safety and manufacturing.
MSc Finance (Corporate 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.
MSc Finance (Banking and Risk Management)
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 Diagnostic Radiography
Biology imaging concerns the techniques used to see living structures, from cells and molecules under the microscope to whole organisms, and how those images are processed and interpreted. Study combines optics, physics and biology with image analysis and computing. Graduates often work in research laboratories, biomedical imaging facilities, technology development and industry.
MSc Design and Development of Digital Business
Design is about shaping objects, images, spaces and experiences so they work well for the people who use them. Studio practice, sketching, prototyping and critique sit alongside research into users, materials and context. Graduates often work in studios and agencies, in-house creative teams, or independently across many industries.
MSc Dementia
Psychiatry is the medical field concerned with mental illness, its assessment, diagnosis, treatment and prevention, combining biological, psychological and social understanding of distress. Learning covers clinical interviewing, psychopharmacology, therapies and the ethics of care. Those trained in it typically work in hospital, community and specialist mental health services.
MSc Data Science and Analytics
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 Computing 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 Chemistry - Analytical 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.
MSc Chemistry - Analysis of Pharmaceutical Compounds
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.
MSc Business 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 Business Analytics
Business analytics turns organisational data into decisions: forecasting demand, measuring what marketing actually achieves, and spotting where operations lose money. The work combines statistics, database querying and modelling with the ability to explain findings to people who are not analysts. Graduates often work as analysts, consultants and decision-support specialists.
MSc Biotechnology
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.
MSc Biology - Marine Biology
Biology is the study of living things, from molecules and cells to organisms, populations and whole ecosystems. Laboratory and field methods sit alongside genetics, physiology, evolution and ecology. Graduates often move into research and laboratory work, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors, conservation and environmental roles, education and science communication.
MSc Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Biology is the study of living things, from molecules and cells to organisms, populations and whole ecosystems. Laboratory and field methods sit alongside genetics, physiology, evolution and ecology. Graduates often move into research and laboratory work, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors, conservation and environmental roles, education and science communication.
MSc Audiology
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 Applied Coastal and Marine Management
Marine transportation covers the movement of cargo and passengers by sea, and the operations that keep vessels running safely. Study areas include navigation, seamanship, ship systems, cargo handling, maritime law and the wider logistics chain that links ports and shippers. Graduates often work in shipping operations, port management, logistics or maritime services.
MSc Accounting and Performance Analytics
Accounting deals with how financial information is recorded, verified and reported so that decisions can be made and organisations held to account. Study covers financial and management accounting, auditing, taxation and reporting rules. Graduates often work in accountancy practice, corporate finance teams, audit, tax, and financial management or analysis.
MPlan Planning and Sustainable Development
Sustainable development studies how human needs — energy, food, housing, work — can be met without exhausting the systems everyone depends on. It draws on economics, environmental science, governance and social equity, and asks who bears the cost of each choice. Graduates often work in development organisations, environmental programmes, policy analysis and corporate responsibility.
MPharm Pharmacy
Pharmacy centres on medicines: how they are made, how they act in the body, how they interact, and how patients are advised to use them safely. Studies combine chemistry, pharmacology and physiology with patient-facing practice. Graduates often work in pharmacy practice, the pharmaceutical industry, regulation and research.
MPH Master of Public Health
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.
MMedSc Sports and Exercise Medicine
Sports medicine looks at the body under physical stress: how injuries happen, how they are diagnosed and rehabilitated, and how performance and health are supported through training, nutrition and recovery. Anatomy, physiology and biomechanics underpin the field. Graduates often work in clinical, sports team, rehabilitation and research settings.
MEngSc Industrial Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing
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.
MEngSc Engineering - Sustainable Energy
Sustainable development studies how human needs — energy, food, housing, work — can be met without exhausting the systems everyone depends on. It draws on economics, environmental science, governance and social equity, and asks who bears the cost of each choice. Graduates often work in development organisations, environmental programmes, policy analysis and corporate responsibility.
MEngSc Engineering - Mechanical Engineering (Manufacturing, Process and Automation Systems)
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.
MEngSc Engineering in Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Systems
Pharmaceutical sciences covers how medicines are discovered, formulated, tested and controlled: the chemistry of drug molecules, how the body absorbs and clears them, and what makes a dose safe and stable. Laboratory work and analysis run throughout. Graduates often work in drug development, formulation, quality control, regulatory affairs and research.
MEngSc Engineering - Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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.
MB, BCh, BAO (Hons) Medicine (Graduate Entry)
Medicine studies the human body in health and in illness: how disease develops, how it is diagnosed, and how treatment and prevention work. Anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and pathology combine with clinical reasoning, ethics and communication. Graduates often work in clinical care, and also in medical research, public health, education and health policy.
MB, BCh, BAO (Hons) Medicine
Medicine studies the human body in health and in illness: how disease develops, how it is diagnosed, and how treatment and prevention work. Anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and pathology combine with clinical reasoning, ethics and communication. Graduates often work in clinical care, and also in medical research, public health, education and health policy.
MACC Accounting
Accounting deals with how financial information is recorded, verified and reported so that decisions can be made and organisations held to account. Study covers financial and management accounting, auditing, taxation and reporting rules. Graduates often work in accountancy practice, corporate finance teams, audit, tax, and financial management or analysis.
MA Women's Studies
Women's studies examines women's lives, histories and contributions, and how gender shapes work, family, law, health and culture. Students draw on history, sociology, literature and political theory, and learn to read evidence and argument critically. Graduates often work in policy, community and advocacy organisations, education, media, research or public services.
MA Translation Studies
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.
MA Sociology of Sustainability and Global Challenges
Sustainable development studies how human needs — energy, food, housing, work — can be met without exhausting the systems everyone depends on. It draws on economics, environmental science, governance and social equity, and asks who bears the cost of each choice. Graduates often work in development organisations, environmental programmes, policy analysis and corporate responsibility.
MA 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.
MA Psychology - Applied Psychology (Positive and Coaching 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.
MA Psychology - Applied Psychology (Mental Health)
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.
MA Psychology - Applied 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.
MA 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.
MA Music - Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology studies music as something people do — in ritual, protest, celebration and daily life — across cultures and communities rather than in a concert hall alone. Fieldwork, recording, transcription and interviews are central methods, along with questions of tradition, identity and migration. Graduates often work in research, archives, museums, arts programming, broadcasting and education.
MA Music and Cultural History
Music history traces how musical styles, instruments, institutions and audiences have changed over time, and what music has meant in different societies. Listening, score study and archival research sit at the centre. Graduates often work in teaching, broadcasting, arts administration, publishing, performance and academic research.
MA Museum Studies
Museology examines how museums collect, care for, interpret and display objects, and how those choices shape public understanding. Students look at curatorial practice, exhibition design, conservation principles, audience engagement and the ethics of ownership and display. Graduates often move into museums, galleries, heritage organisations, collections management or cultural education.
MA Linguistics - Applied 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.
MA Irish - Modern Irish (Nua-Ghaeilge)
Area studies of this kind bring together the history, politics, economies and cultures of a cluster of closely linked neighbouring states, together with the institutions built to manage their cooperation and their disputes. Graduates often work in policy and diplomacy, international organisations, research, translation, business and journalism.
MA Irish Language and European Law
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.
MA Irish - Early and Medieval Irish
Palaeogeography reconstructs what the surface of the planet looked like in earlier eras — where oceans, coastlines, mountains, and climates once lay, and how they shifted over geological time. Evidence comes from rock records, fossils, and modelling. Graduates often work in geological research, resource exploration, environmental consultancy, museums, and teaching.
MA 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.
MA 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.
MA Health and Society
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.
MA Film and Screen 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.
MA Experimental Sound Practice
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.
MA English - Modernities: Literature, Theory and Culture from the Romantics to the Present
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.
MA Digital Arts and Humanities
Arts and humanities is a broad grouping covering literature, history, philosophy, languages and the arts — the study of how people have made meaning and expressed it. What binds it together is reading closely, weighing evidence and arguing well in writing. Graduates often move into media, education, publishing, culture, public administration and communication roles.
MA Criminology
Criminology investigates why crime happens, how societies define and respond to it, and what policing, courts, punishment and prevention actually achieve. It draws on sociology, psychology, law and statistics. Graduates often work in criminal justice agencies, community and youth services, research and policy roles, security and the voluntary sector.
MA 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.
MA Chinese - Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages
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 Celtic Civilisation
Celtic Studies covers the languages, literatures, histories and material culture of Celtic-speaking peoples, ranging from medieval manuscripts and oral tradition to modern writing and language revival. Much of the work involves reading closely and handling primary sources. Graduates often move into teaching, translation, heritage and archive work, publishing and research.
MA Asian Studies
This area-studies field pairs language learning with the histories, politics, religions, economies and arts of the societies it covers, and asks how they have shaped and been shaped by wider global currents. Graduates often work in translation, teaching, journalism, diplomacy, development organisations, cultural institutions and international trade.
MA Arts Management and Creative Producing
Creative arts is a broad practice-based field spanning disciplines such as visual art, performance, writing, music and digital media. Students make work, respond to critique, and study the ideas and histories behind contemporary practice, often combining art forms. Graduates often work as practitioners, and in arts organisations, education, media and the creative industries.
MA Art History - Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory and Criticism
Art history examines paintings, sculpture, buildings and objects as evidence of the societies that produced them, asking why an image looks the way it does and what it meant to its viewers. Close visual analysis pairs with archival research. Graduates often work in museums, galleries, art and auction markets, publishing and teaching.
MA Archaeology - Human Osteoarchaeology
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 Anthropology
Anthropology asks what it means to be human, studying kinship, belief, language, power and material life across societies past and present. Much of the discipline rests on close fieldwork and careful comparison rather than assumption. Graduates often work in research, international development, museums, public policy, user research and the cultural sector.
LLM Law - (Marine and Maritime 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.
LLM Law - (International Human Rights Law and Public Policy)
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.
LLM Law - (Environmental and Natural Resources 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.
LLM Law - (Children's Rights and Family 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.
LLM 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.
HDip Social 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.
BSW (Hons) Social Work
Social work supports people facing hardship — family difficulty, disability, poor mental health, poverty, abuse or needs that come with age — and connects them with services and protection. Human development, law, policy and ethics join the practical skills of assessment and intervention. Graduates often work in child and family services, mental health, community organisations and local government.
BSocSc (Hons) Youth and Community Work
Community practice focuses on working with groups and neighbourhoods rather than individuals alone: assessing local needs, organising residents, designing and running programmes, and building partnerships between services and the people they serve. Graduates commonly work in community development, non-profit and voluntary organisations, local services, housing, youth work and advocacy.
BSocSc (Hons) Social Science
The sociology of science treats scientific knowledge itself as a social activity: how laboratories work, how consensus and controversy form, how funding and institutions shape what gets studied. Students read closely and carry out empirical case studies. Graduates often move into research, science policy, communication, higher education or roles bridging technical and public worlds.
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