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Types of postgraduate taught degree

We offer a number of Master's level awards:

MA (Master of Arts)/MSc (Master of Science)
An MA or MSc Master's degree shows you have gained a higher level of expertise in a specific subject. They generally take one year to complete full-time or two years part-time.
MBA (Master in Business Administration)
The MBA award is for professionals who are looking to boost their managerial credentials.
LLM (Master of Laws)
An LLM specialises in a particular field of law.

MRes (Master by Research)
The MRes trains you for research in a specific academic field and can be good preparation for a PhD.
PgDip (Postgraduate Diploma)
A PgDip is similar to a Master's degree, but is shorter and will typically leave out a major aspect of the full Master's programme - usually the dissertation project.
PgCert (Postgraduate Certificate)
A PgCert can form the basis of a PgDip or Master's degree by introducing you to a subject at an advanced level or providing you with a specialist skill.

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School of Psychology

MA Counselling and Psychotherapy

If you have completed a BACP-accredited Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy or equivalent, this top up course is for you.

MSc Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology

This course, delivered on campus or through distance learning, fully integrates positive psychology and coaching psychology to create an innovative programme.

MSc Business Psychology

Our Business Psychology course combines applied psychology with a professional emphasis and is highly attuned to the needs of working professionals.

MSc Humanitarian Intervention by Distance Learning

This ground-breaking MSc course offers online training for people working in humanitarian organisations, wherever they are in the world.

MSc Integrative Counselling and Coaching

The MSc Integrative Counselling and Coaching is the only postgraduate course in the UK, maybe the world, that offers integration of counselling and coaching practices.

MSc Occupational and Organisational Psychology

Get a competitive edge as you pursue a career as a practising occupational psychologist or go on to study for a professional doctorate.

MSc Psychology

A conversion course for students with a first degree in another subject area. It means you could go on and train to be a professional psychologist.

PGCert Strengths-Based Approaches in CBT

Develop an understanding of strengths-based approaches in CBT, particularly as viewed through the lens of relevant neuroscientific underpinnings.

PGCert Supervision in Counselling, Coaching and Other Helping Professions

This course gives you the knowledge and skills required to supervise in various professional contexts.

PGDip Counselling and Psychotherapy

This long-established, BACP-accredited and hugely popular course is designed to provide training in an integrative approach to counselling and psychotherapy.

PGDip Integrative Counselling and Coaching

The PGDip in Integrative Counselling and Coaching is the only postgraduate course in the UK with integration of counselling and coaching practices.

LLM Business and Financial Law

Study Business and Financial Law and familiarise with contemporary legal and regulatory issues that govern international business and finance.

LLM Energy and Natural Resources

This master's course examines upstream and downstream regulatory trends in oil, gas and minerals in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

LLM FinTech Law

Get expert knowledge in cryptoassets, private digital currencies, decentralized finance and central bank digital currencies in this FinTech course.

LLM General

Since law is a vast and diverse subject, we offer a huge amount of flexibility in this general LLM programme.

LLM Human Rights Advocacy

This LLM pathway is a unique course that allows you to specialise in human rights from a highly practical perspective.

LLM International Law and Legal Practice

The LLM International Law and Legal Practice combines study of international law with practical training in advocacy, legal practice and litigation.

LLM Transitional Justice and Conflict

This pathway connects research in law, social science and contemporary politics to provide you with a solid grounding in international human rights and international humanitarian law.

MBA - Digital Marketing

Become a market business leader in analysis and interpretation of digital data with the MBA in Digital Marketing.

MBA Master of Business Administration - FinTech

The MBA (FinTech Management) offers a FinTech pathway through our dynamic and contemporary MBA degree that prepares business leaders of the future.

MBA - Project Management

Study our MBA (Project Management), accredited by the Chartered Management Institute, a practical and flexible course where you learn leadership skills.

MBA - Supply Chain Management

Our specialised MBA offers a Supply Chain Management pathway, critical to strategic objectives, through the existing contemporary and practical MBA.

MBA Master of Business Administration - Entrepreneurship

Develop entrepreneurial and leadership skills; create innovative, impactful solutions to socio-political, economic and cultural needs in businesses.

MBA Master of Business Administration Business Analytics

Our MBA (Business Analytics) is a dynamic, contemporary and practical course designed to produce data-driven business leaders of the future.

MBA Master of Business Administration - Sustainable Energy

Develop leadership skills; create innovative and impactful solutions to identified sociopolitical, economic and cultural needs in sustainable energy.

MBA Master of Business Administration

Become a business leader. Get the skills and connections to work in senior management, business consultancy, or build your own enterprise.

MSc Events and Hospitality Leadership

Benefit from a mixture of theoretical input and practice to ensure employability. Develop business principles, alongside sector knowledge.

MSc Finance and Risk

Pursue a career in financial management and gain the professional qualifications of prestigious Chartered Institutes such as the CBI, IMC or CFA.

MSc Human Resource Management

Take your HR career to the next level. Combine theoretical knowledge with the practical elements you will need to succeed in your career.

Innovation and Sustainable Hospitality

The MSc Innovation and Sustainable Hospitality draws upon the research expertise, knowledge and experience of the global hospitality industries and a range of practitioners.

MSc International Business Management

MSc International Business Management prepares you for global business roles such as entrepreneurship, global innovation, corporate strategy or consultancy.

MSc Marketing

Our MSc Marketing course focuses on the development of an understanding of core marketing theories and an evaluation of how they apply to the role of professional marketing.

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MSc Oil and Gas Management

Our MSc Oil and Gas Management is ideal for people with no prior experience of energy management, as well those already working in the industry.

MSc Professional Accounting

Learn how to apply professional accounting theory to practice, familiarise with the profession's latest thinking, techniques and practices.

MSc Sports Management

Acquire the tools and skills you need to thrive in the world of sports management. Get a head start when it comes to finding work in the field.

MSc Sustainable Tourism Development & Management

Develop your knowledge of sustainable tourism, tourism entrepreneurship, political economy of tourism, cultural and heritage tourism management and destination marketing.

MA Architecture and Urbanism

Concept generation; context analysis; programmatic control; performance assessment; a holistic approach to digital architecture and urban design.

MA Fine Art

Develop your own work within the supportive atmosphere of studio-based practice and under the close supervision of some of Britain's leading artists.

MA Interior Design

The aim of this Master's programme is to engage you in creative and experimental processes and to enhance your ability to grasp complex design ideas.

MA Professional Landscape Architecture with Conversion

This is a design based career conversion/ development course at Masters level, for anyone who has a passion for landscape architecture, but a first degree in any other subject.

MA Professional Landscape Architecture

A design-based career conversion course at Masters level, for anyone who has a passion for landscape architecture, but a degree in another subject.

MArch Architecture (ARB/RIBA PART 2)

Our MArch Architecture course is fully accredited, furthering your progress towards becoming a qualified architect.

MRes Architecture (Reading the Neoliberal City)

This multi-disciplinary course analyses the impact of capitalist neoliberalism on development, examining neoliberal policies over the last 30 years.

MSc Artificial Intelligence

Studying MSc Artificial Intelligence will provide you with a solid foundation for careers in a broad range of specialisms such in machine learning, computing and IT.

MSc Big Data Technologies

Pursue a career as a Big Data scientist or expert, deriving valuable insights and business-relevant knowledge from massive amounts of data.

MSc Blockchain and Financial Technologies

Develop and evaluate information security policy; assess the effectiveness of information systems security within the financial systems.

Civil Engineering with Environmental Management MSc

Get advanced engineering training and build future cities and settlements as safe, sustainable, resilient and adaptable systems.

MSc Civil Engineering with Sustainbility

The Civil Engineering with Sustainability MSc course provides advanced training for engineers and professionals.

MSc Civil Engineering

Improve your engineering expertise and develop valuable industry experience with our degree and optional placement year.

MSc Cloud Computing

You'll be equipped with computation, mathematical, and business views of cloud computing. You'll gain knowledge and understanding of theory and application.

MSc Computer Science

This course develops your knowledge and skills within the cutting-edge areas of computer science, providing you with advanced theoretical knowledge and practical skills related to emerging technologies.

MSc Computing

This course helps you to develop your knowledge and skills within the cutting-edge areas of computing and information communication technology.

MSc Construction Asset Management with Digital Technologies

Asset Management is the means of ensuring that people, systems, processes and resources which deliver a construction project, are in place, in use and fit for purpose over a project's lifecycle.

MSc Construction Engineering Management

The programme aims to develop management skills and critically reflective practice on construction.

MSc Data Science

Look at data across a wide range of subjects, including finance, crime, the environment, housing, education, demographics and social media.

MSc Digital Education

This course will teach you the latest ground-breaking research and practices in educational technology and instructional design to help you reshape the future of learning and teaching.

MSc Electric Vehicle Engineering

This is a specialist postgraduate degree that equips you with the tools and techniques necessary to address challenges associated with the development and implementation of electrification of conventional mobility solutions.

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MSc Engineering Management

The MSc course is designed to meet the increasing demand for engineering professionals with advanced technical skills in engineering management.

MSc Information Security and Digital Forensics

Address system vulnerabilities and explore preventative measures, detection and repair. Experience high exposure with industry professionals.

MSc Intelligent Transport Planning and Engineering

The programme will provide learners with a stimulating learning environment for understanding the role of the engineer as an important professional in society.

MSc Mechanical Engineering

This interactive course will provide you with advanced engineering knowledge and hands-on skills that a professional engineer needs to solve complex issues.

MSc Mechatronics and Computer Systems Engineering

This MSc programme combines principles from mechanics, electronics, control, computers, automation and robotics to design, manufacture and test smart systems.

Real Estate Management MSc

The Real Estate Management MSc programme is designed to meet the demand within the construction management industry with advanced skills.

MSc Structural Engineering

Develop your engineering expertise in line with the ever-changing demands of the profession. Get your engineering career off to the best start.

MSc Sustainable Energy Engineering

The course in Sustainable Energy Engineering will provide students with advanced knowledge and skills in the key engineering aspects of renewable and sustainable energy.

PGDip Civil Engineering

Develop your engineering expertise and acquire comprehensive understanding of the most up-to-date practices and theories in civil engineering.

PGDip Landscape Architecture

At UEL we help extend your skills and subject knowledge to landscape professional standards, through tailored teaching, whatever your starting point.

PGDip Structural Engineering

We have designed our Postgraduate Diploma in Structural Engineering to develop your engineering expertise in line with the ever-changing demands of the profession.

The MSc at UEL has been a fantastic experience. The focus on real-world work scenarios as well as research has equipped me with the confidence and skills to apply the knowledge I have learnt on the course to my own work."

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School of Arts and Creative Industries

MA Acting for Stage and Screen

Through practice-led learning and research with professionals, you'll develop and enhance professional techniques in acting, text, voice, movement and performance.

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MA Acting

Produce and perform a range of innovative work of professional quality while also being given expert tuition in the skills of acting.

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MA/MFA Applied Theatre

Develop your practices in socially engaged theatre contexts; facilitate and create projects in non-theatre environments with the MA Applied Theatre.

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MA/MFA Contemporary Performance Practices

This course breaks disciplinary borders to explore how performance can help us respond to social, environmental and ecological changes and challenges.

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MA Data Journalism

Our MA Data Journalism course provides a detailed, critically oriented knowledge of data as a meaningful record accessible to journalists, in order to prepare you "for jobs of the future."

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MA Directing for Stage and Screen

Direct for both the live theatre and for onscreen film and television. Develop audio-visual elements for live performance.

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MA Fashion

Focus on researching and developing creative practice; implement an interdisciplinary learning project or curriculum initiative.

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MA Filmmaking

Our innovative and strikingly diverse course equips you to integrate the theory and practice of film, video and new screen media at an advanced level.

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Global Football Journalism

Our MA Global Football Journalism will help you understand the distinct world of multi-media football journalism and its employment opportunities in related industries.

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MA Global Learning Futures

This course is a progressive venture in interdisciplinary learning design and innovation.

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MA International Fashion Business

This course will provide you with up-to-date management skills in the context of fashion.

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MA Media and Communication Industries

Explore media and marketing communications industries from political-economic aspects to the creation of media practitioners and users.

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MA/MFA Sound and Music for Games

You will be guided in the design and implementation of creative projects, involving modules for the arts, design thinking, and innovation practice.

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MA/MFA Sound and Music for Media

Extend your skill base through applied practice and research in professional contexts.

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MA/MFA Sound and Music for Theatre

Develop projects in sound and music for theatre and capitalise on our expertise in interdisciplinary working.

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MA/MFA Sound and Music Performance

Develop your own performance projects; get skills in sound design and production, interdisciplinary work, composition and technology.

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MA/MFA Sound and Music Production

Extend your skill base through applied practice and research in professional contexts.

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MA Theatre Directing

Pursue a professional career as a theatre director, develop your directing practice through an active engagement with critical thinking.

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School of Education and Communities

MA Conflict, Displacement and Human Security

We will help you develop skills and understanding to prepare for employment in conflict management and resolution, humanitarian assistance and development, human rights, and social justice.

MA Early Childhood Leadership and Practice

Our academic team have experience of early childhood practice, family support, early intervention, child rights services, informal education, policy development, service development and teaching in the early years.

MA Education

MA Education will extend your understanding of teaching theory and practice and help teachers or those supporting teaching and learning.

MA English Language Teaching (Distance Learning)

Explore the global spread of English, the rise of 'new Englishes' and the political and cultural dimensions of teaching English as an international language.

MA English Language Teaching

This Master's programme is the only one in London with an exclusive focus on the areas of TESOL and TEFL - as opposed to Applied Linguistics.

MA Leadership In Education

This course will enable you to develop your leadership skills and ability to lead change to meet the needs of staff and students in education.

MA Post Qualifying Professional Practice

The MA Post-Qualifying Professional Practice has been designed to support the continuing professional development of qualified practitioners who are out in the field practising as social workers.

MA Refugee Studies

Understand global refugee movements, the processes behind the search for protection and asylum and the global responses to forced displacement.

MA Social Work

This MA Social Work degree equips you with the skills, knowledge and reflective capacity you need to practise as an effective social worker.

MA Special and Additional Learning Needs (ICEPE)

Underpinned by the latest research in special education, the course builds on participants’ existing skills and competencies. The aim is to enhance the quality of education for children and young people with special and additional learning needs in settings worldwide.

MA Special Educational Needs

This course will help you understand a range of issues such as autism, dyslexia, social and emotional mental health issues, and inclusion.

MA Youth And Community Work

This established course opens the door for you to step straight into youth work.

MSc NGO and Development Management

This course examines the central issues facing developing countries in today's globalised world, equipping you for a job in development and the wider sectors.

MSc International Relations

Understand global politics, state and inter-state relations. Delve into international relations, global inequalities, power and environmental risks.

IPGCE

Explore key aspects of learning and teaching in international school systems. Develop individual practice via critical engagement and research.

PGCE Non-Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

A straightforward route to a PGCE award for students who already have, or are on a course leading to, Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).

PGCE Post-Compulsory Education and Training (PCET)

You will have the opportunity to develop your skills through hands-on teaching practice, completing written assignments to show your understanding of the principles of teaching.

PGCE Primary With Early Years (3-7)

This route is designed for graduates interested in teaching children aged three to seven, but this will not restrict you to working with this group.

PGCE Primary With English And Drama

The PGCE with English and Drama route gives you the expertise, confidence and skills to take on a leadership role in these primary subject areas.

PGCE Primary with English as an Additional Language

This PGCE route is for graduates who are interested in how pupils whose first language is not English are included and supported in primary schools.

PGCE Primary With Humanities And Religious Education

On the Humanities and Religious Education (RE) route you will gain the skills, knowledge and confidence to take on a leadership role in the field.

PGCE Primary With ICT And Computing

The PGCE with ICT and Computing route gives you the additional expertise, confidence and skills to take on a leadership role in this subject.

PGCE Primary With Maths

Study primary teaching with a focus on maths; train to become a primary school teacher, teaching children in the 5-11 age range.

PGCE Primary With SEN (Inclusion)

Study primary teaching with a focus on special education needs (SEN); become a primary school teacher, teaching children in the 5-11 age range.

PGCE Primary with SEN (Special Schools)

Study primary teacher education and become a primary school teacher. Train to teach children in the 5-11 age range.

PGCE Primary With Sport And Wellbeing

The primary teacher education course is designed for graduates who are committed to becoming primary school teachers. It trains you to teach children in the five -to-11 age range.

PGCE Primary With STEM

The PGCE STEM route is designed to give you the additional expertise, confidence and skills to take on a leadership role in the primary STEM subjects.

PGCE Primary With The Arts

Study primary teaching with a focus on arts; train to become a primary school teacher, teaching children in the 5-11 age range.

PGCE Secondary Biology

Become teachers who inspire the next generation of scientists in STEM fields and a workforce that can make well-informed, evidence-based decisions.

PGCE Secondary Chemistry

Our PGCE with QTS trains you to teach 11-to-16s and qualifies you to be a chemistry teacher in secondary schools in England and Wales.

PGCE Secondary Community Languages

This course leads to the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) for the 11-to-16 age range, which qualifies you to be a teacher in secondary schools in England and Wales. Where possible, we also give you the chance to gain experience in the 11-to-18 age range.

PGCE Secondary Computing

Become a Qualified Teacher of ICT and help young people develop the skills they need to succeed in digital media, games design and visual effects.

PGCE Secondary Design And Technology

Our PGCE with QTS trains you to teach 11-to-16s and qualifies you to be a design & technology teacher in secondary schools in England and Wales.

PGCE Secondary Drama

As a drama teacher, you can help pupils discover and nurture new talents, teach a range of skills on how to work together and develop ideas.

PGCE Secondary English

Our PGCE with QTS trains you to teach 11-to-16s and qualifies you to be an English teacher in secondary schools in England and Wales.

PGCE Secondary Geography

Share your knowledge and enthusiasm for geography to engage students and learn about child development and behaviour management.

PGCE Secondary Mathematics

Our PGCE with QTS trains you to teach 11-to-16s and qualifies you to be a maths teacher in secondary schools in England and Wales.

PGCE Secondary Modern Languages

Our PGCE with QTS trains you to teach 11-to-16s and qualifies you to be a modern language teacher in secondary schools in England and Wales.

PGCE Secondary Music

This course qualifies you to be a secondary teacher of music in England and Wales.

PGCE Secondary Physical Education

Become a qualified PE teacher and improve pupils' lives by helping them to develop movement literacy and important life skills.

PGCE Secondary Physics

Our PGCE with QTS trains you to teach 11-to-16s and qualifies you to be a physics teacher in secondary schools in England and Wales.

PGCE Secondary Religious Education

As a religious education teacher, you can help your pupils become compassionate young adults, respectful of religious and cultural differences.

PGCert Autism Spectrum Conditions and Learning

With an estimated 1.6 per cent of the population diagnosed with autism and an increased focus on inclusion, this course allows you to develop your knowledge and understanding of pupils with autism.

PGCert National Award for Special Educational Needs Coordination (NASENCO)

The course will enable you to study and research current and relevant issues concerning a range of special educational needs and disabilities and to develop your knowledge of inclusive pedagogy and practice.

PGCert Understanding And Supporting Behaviour

Study and research issues concerning social, emotional and mental health issues and their relationship to challenging behaviour.

MRes Bioscience

Our MRes in Bioscience is designed to provide you with the best opportunity to develop and demonstrate key skills for a career in bioscience research.

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MRes Health Science

This course will give you a key understanding of research techniques and management principles, so you can pursue a career in scientific research.

MRes Sport and Exercise Science

The MRes in Sport and Exercise Science is designed to give you the opportunity to develop key research skills focused on sport and related research.

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MSc Advanced Clinical Practice

Study MSc Advanced Clinical Practice at UEL to support you in your continued professional development to Masters Level.

MSc Applied Sport And Exercise Physiology

Train to work as an applied sport and exercise physiologist; learn the theoretical knowledge as well as the key practical skills.

MSc Applied Sport And Exercise Sciences (Sport Psychology)

Our BASES (PSES) endorsed MSc immerses you into sport psychology in a supportive and challenging way.

MSc Applied Sport And Exercise Sciences (Strength And Conditioning)

This course will develop skills and knowledge to allow you to have a sound knowledge base, that is applied into practice, to enhance performance.

MSc Biomedical Science (with specialism)

Enhance your career prospects in specialist areas within biomedical science. Update your knowledge, and gain a postgraduate qualification.

MSc Pharmaceutical Science (with specialism)

Get a detailed understanding of pharmaceutical science and develop the skills needed for individual and collaborative research in drug development.

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MSc Physician Associate

This is a two-year full-time course of at least 90 weeks, with substantive time in clinical placement. You will study the anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, microbiology, and pharmacology related t

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MSc Public Health

The MSc Public Health degree will develop your management competencies and research techniques, on your way to a career as a health professional.

MSc Sport Analytics

Study sport analytics and have access to reliable and valid information, maximising the value of data in the sports industry.

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PGCert Independent and Supplementary Prescribing

This course supports registered healthcare practitioners (nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals) in the UK to practice as safe, effective, and competent independent and supplementary prescribers.

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School of Psychology

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School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering

The MSc at UEL has been a fantastic experience. The focus on real-world work scenarios as well as research has equipped me with the confidence and skills to apply the knowledge I have learnt on the course to my own work."

School of Arts and Creative Industries

School of Education and Communities

School of Health, Sport and Bioscience