
University of Kent
The University of Kent is outward looking and forward-thinking, with outstanding academic staff, excellent facilities, networking opportunities and award-winning student support. Our interdisciplinary programmes are designed to help you sharpen your focus and take a step up in your career. Develop the skills you need to stand out and succeed in tomorrow’s world.
Postgraduate programmes
Kent is a top UK and global University, known for its teaching excellence, and for the interdisciplinary nature of its programmes and research. We understand that postgraduate students need flexibility, so many of our taught and all of our research degrees offer September or January starts. Many of our courses will consider applicants either holding or projected 2:2 UK Bachelors degree or equivalent, we also offer distance-learning options and short courses.
Multimillion-pound postgraduate scholarship fund
At Kent, we offer a range of funding opportunities. Kent’s scholarships include full awards to support doctoral researchers and students undertaking a taught Master’s at our locations in the UK and Europe. Our Research Council doctoral training partnerships give you access to a range of funding and research networks.

Impressive career prospects
Kent has an excellent record for employment. Alongside developing career skills on your programme, you’ll have access to Kent’s extensive careers support. This includes one-to-one advice, workshops and resources from our Careers and Employability Service. Take a look at what are graduates are doing now – read our alumni profiles.
Career-focused conversion Master’s
If you’re looking for a career change or want to study a different postgraduate degree to your undergraduate degree? Take a look at our Conversion Master’s Programmes at Kent. where you can learn new skills, improve your job prospects and prepare you for a career in a different discipline.
Postgraduate students who apply by June 2022 and meet the criteria of their course offer will have guaranteed accommodation offers on campus.
A leading research university
Interdisciplinary, international and highly influential, our research addresses some of the most critical issues of our time such as cancer treatment, dissolving plastic pollution; improving UK productivity and creating original forms of poetry and creative writing. The approach to research at Kent has always been interdisciplinary and collaborative and our signature research themes reflect this.

Supportive environment
Our Graduate and Researcher College helps to create a caring, stimulating intellectual and social environment. The dedicated team ensures our students have access to the resources they need, including study hubs exclusively for postgrads, running a series of training programmes, workshops and events to help you further develop transferrable and specialist skills to support your research and employability.
Locations
Postgraduate study is offered at our UK campuses in Canterbury and Medway, both within easy reach of London, as well as at our specialist European centres: the Brussels School of International Studies and the Paris School of Arts and Culture.
Kent's Open Event on Demand
Review the University of Kent’s On-Demand Virtual Open Event and find out how you can pursue your passion at Kent. Watch presentations from specialist academics and admissions staff about postgraduate study. Discover our dedicated Graduate School, and get the latest funding information, including loans for Master's students. Explore our world through Kent’s virtual experience, which campus will you explore first?
Specialist postgraduate centres in Europe
Brussels School of International Studies
Kent is the only UK university to have a postgraduate centre in ‘the capital of Europe’, home to major international organisations such as the EU and NATO and offers postgraduate programmes taught by world-leading academics and experienced practitioners. The School offers a variety of study options and networking opportunities in politics, law and international studies.
Paris School of Arts and Culture
Spending either a full year or a term studying in the heart of this beautiful and historic city, teaching is enhanced by your immersion in a leading centre for European culture. The School offers advanced, flexible Master’s degrees across the arts, including in architecture, history of art, film, and creative writing.
Contact
For further information on all taught and research programmes do get in touch. Our postgraduate prospectus is available to download or you can request a copy here.
To speak to a member of our dedicated team, please contact us
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- Email us: information@kent.ac.uk
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- MA - Social Work
- MA / MSc - Professional Practice (Resilient Leadership in Education)
- MA/MSc - Professional Practice
- MSc - Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Advanced Dental Clinical Practice)
- MSc - Advanced and Specialist Healthcare (Applied Dental Professional Practice)
- MSc - Professional Practice (Teaching and Learning)
- Online Short Course Introduction to Master's-Level Study
- PCert/PDip/MSc - Advanced and Specialist Healthcare
- PDip/MA - Higher Education
- Senior Leader (MBA) Apprenticeship
- Senior Leader (MSc in Healthcare Management) Apprenticeship
- Senior Leader (MSc in Management) Apprenticeship
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- MBA - The MBA (full-time and part-time)
- MSc - Business Analytics
- MSc - Digital Marketing and Analytics
- MSc - Finance
- MSc - Finance (Dual Award]
- MSc - Finance and Management
- MSc - Finance, Investment and Risk
- MSc - FinTech
- MSc - Healthcare Management (full-time and part-time)
- MSc - Human Resource Management
- MSc - International Business and Management
- MSc - Leadership and Management
- MSc - Logistics and Supply Chain Management
- MSc - Marketing
- MSc - Strategic Project Management (full-time and part-time)
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- LLM - Human Rights Law (at Brussels)
- LLM - International Law (at Brussels)
- LLM - Law (by Research)
- LLM - Socio-legal Studies
- LLM / PDip - Law (Human Rights Law)
- LLM / PDip - Law (Intellectual Property Law)
- LLM / PDip - Law (International Law with International Relations)
- LLM / PDip / PCert - Law
- LLM / PgDip - Law (Criminal Justice)
- LLM / PgDip - Law (International Commercial Law)
- LLM / PgDip - Law (International Criminal Justice)
- LLM / PgDip - Law (International Environmental Law)
- LLM / PgDip - Law (International Law)
- LLM / PgDip - Law (Law and Health)
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- MA - Anthropology
- MA - Social Anthropology - Humanitarian and Environmental Crises
- MSc - Biodiversity Management
- MSc - Conservation and International Wildlife Trade
- MSc - Conservation and Rural Development
- MSc - Conservation Biology
- MSc - Conservation Project Management
- MSc - Ethnobiology (by research)
- MSc - Ethnobotany
- MSc - Forensic Osteology and Field Recovery Methods
- MSc Biological Anthropology (by Research)
- MSc/PhD - Human Geography
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- MA - Creative Producing
- MA - Curating
- MA - Film
- MA - Film (Canterbury and Paris)
- MA - Film (Paris)
- MA - Film with Practice
- MA - History and Philosophy of Art (Canterbury and Paris)
- MA - History and Philosophy of Art (Canterbury)
- MA - History and Philosophy of Art (Paris)
- MA - Physical Acting
- MA - Theatre Making
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- Developing gregarine apicomplexans as aquatic symbiosis model system
- MSc - Biochemistry
- MSc - Biomedicine
- MSc - Biotechnology and Bioengineering
- MSc - Biotechnology and Business
- MSc - Cancer Biology and Therapeutics
- MSc - Cell Biology
- MSc - Computational Biology
- MSc - Genetics
- MSc - Infectious Diseases
- MSc - Microbiology
- MSc - Reproductive Medicine: Science and Ethics
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- MA - American Literature and Culture
- MA - Comparative Literature
- MA - Creative Writing (Canterbury and Paris)
- MA - Creative Writing (Canterbury)
- MA - Creative Writing (Paris)
- MA - English
- MA - English and American Literature
- MA - Experimental and Theoretical Lingustics
- MA - Medical Humanities
- MA - Postcolonial Studies (Research)
- MA - Postcolonial Studies (Taught)
- MA - The Contemporary Novel: Practice as Research
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- MSc - Actuarial Science
- MSc - Actuarial Science with an Industrial Placement
- MSc - Applied Actuarial Science
- MSc - Applied Actuarial Science (International Master's)
- MSc - Applied Actuarial Science with an Industrial Placement
- MSc - International Master's in Applied Actuarial Science with an Industrial Placement
- MSc - Mathematics
- MSc - Statistical Data Science
- MSc - Statistical Data Science with an Industrial Placement
- MSc - Statistics
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- MA - EU External Relations
- MA - International Conflict and Security
- MA - International Development
- MA - International Migration
- MA - International Political Economy
- MA - International Relations
- MA - International Relations with International Law
- MA - Peace and Conflict Studies (International Joint Award)
- MA - Political and Social Thought
- MA - Political Strategy and Communication
- MA - Security and Terrorism
- MA / PgDip - International Relations
- MSc - Political Psychology
- PGDip / MA - International Conflict Analysis
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- MA - Community Care
- MA - Criminology
- MA - International Social Policy
- MA - Mental Health of People with Learning Disabilities
- MA - Social Work
- MA - Sociology
- MA - Two Year Master's in International Social Policy
- MA / PCert - Methods of Social Research
- MA / PDip / PCert - Philanthropic Studies (Distance Learning)
- MA by Research - Criminology
- MA by Research - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- MA by Research - Social Policy
- MA by Research - Urban Studies
- PCert, PDip, MA - Advanced Child Protection
- PCert, PDip, MA - Autism Studies
- PCert, PDip, MA - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- PCert, PDip, MSc - Applied Behaviour Analysis (Intellectual and Developmental Disability)
- PDip / MSc - Analysis and Intervention in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Philanthropic Studies - PhD
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- MA / PgCert / PgDip - Autism Studies
- MA / PgCert / PgDip - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- MA / PgCert / PgDip - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Distance Learning)
- MA / PgDip / PgCert - Autism Studies (Distance Learning)
- MA by Research - Community Care
- MSc / PgDip - Analysis and Intervention in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- PDip / MSc - Positive Behaviour Support