Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck is a global elite university, a centre of world-class research and part of the prestigious University of London. We are London’s only specialist provider of evening postgraduate education.
Birkbeck offers nearly 300 taught and research postgraduate programmes across arts and humanities, business and economics, law, science and social science. As an evening teaching specialist, we offer taught postgrad courses between 6-9pm, with some courses available through distance learning. As with undergraduate courses, postgrads can study full-time or part-time.
Birkbeck’s research excellence was confirmed in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, which placed us 30th in the UK for research, with 73% of our research rated world-leading or internationally excellent. Home to 44 research and specialist institutes, Birkbeck is the sixth largest provider of taught postgrad courses for UK and EU students - some 30% of its 12,000-plus students are on postgrad programmes. Around 90% of its academics are active in research, and many are renowned in their fields.
Our unique academic environment gives you the opportunity to make valuable professional contact with working professionals based in a global capital city. This is an exceptional opportunity to progress your career and transform your life - and is a unique advantage of studying at Birkbeck.
Many of our postgraduate students are working around their full-time jobs and are studying to improve their careers. Our students tell us they would not have the careers they have if they hadn't come to Birkbeck. As diverse and cosmopolitan as London itself, Birkbeck students are hardworking, driven and committed to achieving - and excited about being in a Birkbeck classroom. They bring their expertise and experience with them, and you'll be able to hear from professionals with experience in your subject and learn to apply this real-life knowledge to your own studies.
As a postgraduate student, you’ll be able to use our Careers and Employability Service to obtain one-to-one appointments, workshops and events while you’re studying. You can also use it once you’ve graduated from your course. Alongside this, Birkbeck also offers Birkbeck Talent, an in-house recruitment agency, which works with more than 150 of the UK’s best companies and employers to help students find work while studying and after graduating. Bespoke support is offered to students interested in enterprise and entrepreneurship, while there is also an extensive mentoring programme with corporate partners from business, law and beyond.
We are committed to providing advice and support to help you finance your postgraduate studies. The government has introduced new loans for postgraduate students and alongside, we also offer flexible payment options and a hardship fund to support students who experience a change of circumstances while studying.
Birkbeck was created 200 years ago to provide university education for working Londoners. We still believe in the power of knowledge to transform lives, so we go out of our way to make education accessible to as wide a community as possible. If you have the commitment and ability to study, we’ll find a way to make it happen for you.
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Department / School information and available programmes:
Programme List:
- Accounting and Finance (MSc)
- Banking and Finance (MSc)
- Business Analytics (MSc)
- Business Innovation (MSc)
- Career Coaching (MSc/PGCert)
- Corporate Governance (MSc)
- Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (MSc)
- Culinary Innovation Management (MSc)
- Digital Business (MSc)
- Econometrics (PGCert)
- Economics (Graduate Diploma)
- Economics (MPhil)
- Economics (MSc/MRes)
- Entrepreneurship (MSc)
- Finance (MSc)
- Finance and Data Analytics (MSc)
- Financial Economics (MSc)
- Hospitality Innovation Management (MSc)
- Human Resource Management (MSc)
- International Business (MSc)
- International Business and Development (MSc)
- International Human Resource Management (MSc)
- International Marketing (MSc)
- Management (MPhil)
- Management (MSc/MRes)
- Management and Finance (MSc)
- Management Consultancy and Organisational Change (MSc)
- Management with Business Innovation (MSc)
- Management with International Business (MSc)
- Management with International Business and Development (MSc)
- Management with Marketing (MSc)
- Management with Sport Management (MSc)
- Marketing (MSc)
- Marketing Analytics (MSc)
- Marketing Communications (MSc)
- Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- Organizational Psychology (MPhil)
- Organizational Psychology (MSc)
- Politics, Philosophy and Economics (MSc)
- Professional Practice in Occupational Psychology (MRes/Professional Doctorate)
- Quantitative Finance with Data Science (MSc)
- Sport Management (MSc)
- Sport Management and Marketing (MSc)
- Sport Management and the Business of Football (MSc)
Programme List:
- Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (MA/PGDip)
- Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (MA)
- Foundation for Counselling and Psychotherapy Training (Graduate Certificate)
- Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (MSc)
- Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents (MSc)
- Psychodynamics of Human Development (MSc/PGDip)
Programme List:
- Law (Graduate Diploma)
- Law (MPhil)
- Law and Social Change at Birkbeck (MPhil)
- Law General (LLM)
- Law with Commercial Law (LLM)
- Law with Constitutional Politics, Law and Theory (LLM)
- Law with Environmental Law, Governance and Policy (LLM)
- Law with Human Rights (LLM)
- Law with International Intellectual Property (LLM)
- Law with International Law and Development (LLM)
- Law with Law and New Technologies (LLM)
- Law with Law and Political Economy (LLM)
- Qualifying Law Degree (LLM)
Programme List:
- Advanced Computing (MSc/MRes)
- Applied Data Science (PGCert)
- Applied Statistics (MSc/PGCert)
- Applied Statistics and Financial Modelling (MSc)
- Computer Science (MSc)
- Computer Science and Information Systems (MPhil)
- Data Science (MSc)
- Mathematics (Graduate Certificate)
- Mathematics (Graduate Diploma)
- Mathematics and Statistics (MPhil)
- Mathematics by Distance Learning (Graduate Certificate)
- Statistics for Data Science (Graduate Certificate)
Programme List:
- Applied Linguistics (MPhil)
- Applied Linguistics and Communication (MA)
- Arts Management (PGDip)
- Arts Policy and Management (MA/PGCert)
- Comparative Literature (MPhil)
- Contemporary Literature and Culture (2000-present) (MA)
- Creative Writing (MA)
- Creative Writing and Contemporary Studies (MA)
- Critical Theory (MA)
- Cultural Policy and Management (MPhil)
- Digital Culture and Communication (MPhil)
- Digital Media Culture (MA)
- Digital Media Design (MA)
- Digital Media Management (MA/PGCert)
- Dramaturgy (MA)
- Early Modern and Renaissance Studies (MA)
- English and Humanities (MPhil)
- Film and Screen Media (MA)
- Film and Screen Media (MPhil)
- Film and Screen Media (with Study Abroad) (MA)
- Film and Screen Media (with Television) (MA)
- Film and Screen Media with Film Programming and Curating (MA)
- Film Programming and Curating (MA)
- French (MPhil)
- French Studies (Graduate Diploma)
- German (MPhil)
- German Studies (Graduate Diploma)
- Iberian and Latin American Studies (MPhil)
- Investigative Reporting (MA)
- Japanese (MPhil)
- Japanese Studies (Graduate Diploma)
- Journalism (MA/PGDip/PGCert)
- Journalism and Communication (MPhil)
- Language Teaching/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) (MA/PGDip/PGCert)
- Linguistic Studies (Graduate Certificate)
- Medical Humanities: Bodies, Cultures and Ideas (MA)
- Medieval Studies (MA )
- Modern Languages and Comparative Literatures (MA/MRes)
- Modern Literature and Culture (1900-present) (MA)
- Screenwriting (MA/PGCert)
- Spanish and Latin American Studies (Graduate Diploma)
- Text and Performance (MA)
- Theatre Directing (MFA)
- Victorian Studies (MA)
- Web Design and Development (PGCert)
Programme List:
- Archaeological Practice (Economic and Social Research) (MSc)
- Archaeological Practice (MA)
- Archaeology (MPhil)
- Classical Archaeology (MA)
- Classical Archaeology and Ancient History (MPhil)
- Classical Civilisation (MA)
- Classics (MA)
- Classics (MPhil)
- Contemporary History and Politics (MA)
- Curating and Collections Management (PGCert)
- European History (MA)
- Gender and Sexuality Studies (MA/MSc/PGCert/PGDip)
- Global History: Empires, States and Cultures (MA)
- Historical Research (Economic and Social History) (MSc)
- Historical Research (MA)
- History (Graduate Certificate)
- History (MPhil)
- History (MRes)
- History of Architecture (MA)
- History of Art (MA)
- History of Art (MPhil)
- History of Art and Architecture (Graduate Certificate)
- History of Art and Architecture (Graduate Diploma)
- History of Art with Collections Management (MA)
- History of Art with Curating (MA)
- History of Photography (MA)
- History of Photography with Curating (MA)
- Museum Cultures (MA)
- Museum Cultures with Collections Management (MA)
- Museum Cultures with Curating (MA)
- Philosophy (MA/MRes/PGDip/PGCert)
- Philosophy (MPhil)
- Public Histories (MA)
Programme List:
Programme List:
- Brain and Cognitive Development (MA/MSc)
- Cognition and Computation (MA/MSc)
- Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology (MA/MSc)
- Educational Neuroscience (MA/MSc)
- Functional Neuroimaging (MRes)
- Health and Clinical Psychological Sciences (MA/MSc)
- Psychological Research Methods (MSc)
- Psychology (MPhil)
- Psychology (MSc/MRes)
Programme List:
- Climate Change (MSc/PGDip/PGCert)
- Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (MA/LLM)
- Criminology (MPhil)
- Criminology (MSc)
- Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity (MA/PGDip/PGCert)
- Education and Social Justice (MSc/PGDip/PGCert)
- Environment and Sustainability (MSc/PGDip/PGCert)
- Gender and Sexuality (MPhil)
- Geographic Data Science (MSc/PGDip/PGCert/PGCert Intensive)
- Geography (MSc/PGDip/PGCert)
- Geography, Environment and Development Studies (MPhil)
- Global Political Economy (MSc)
- Global Politics of Environment and Resources (MSc)
- Government, Policy and Politics (MSc)
- International Development (MSc/PGDip/PGCert)
- International Relations (MSc)
- International Security and Global Governance (MSc)
- Political Communication (MSc)
- Politics (MPhil)
- Politics (MSc/MRes)
- Psychoanalytic Studies (MA)
- Psychosocial Studies (Graduate Certificate)
- Psychosocial Studies (MA)
- Psychosocial Studies (MPhil)
- Public Policy and Management (MSc)
- Social and Political Theory (MSc)
- Social Research (MSc/PGDip/PGCert)
- Social Research and Applied Linguistics (MRes)
- Social Research and Criminology (MRes)
- Social Research and Gender and Sexuality (MRes)
- Social Research and Law and Legal Studies (MRes)
- Social Research and Psychosocial Studies (MRes)
- Sociology (MA)
- Sociology (MPhil)
- Sustainable Cities (MSc)