Guide for new students
If you're new to Birkbeck - or if you're coming back after taking a break - welcome! We're delighted you've decided to join us, and we've provided the following guide to help you settle in.
We also recommend you attend the orientation events in September at Student Orientation Week.
Getting started: Certificate of Higher Education students
- Enrol on your first module
- Make arrangements to pay your fees
- Apply for financial support (if you are eligible)
- Sign up for an orientation or induction event
- Student Guide
for all new students - Get Ahead: Stay Ahead - information and interactive tutorials to help you get the best possible start to your course and support during your studies
- Get your ITS username and password
- Get your Birkbeck student card
- If you are studying in Stratford, how to get your UEL student card
- Check that we have the right address for you
- Log in to your computer account and top up your print account
- Log in to BLE / Blackboard if you are taking a BLE / Blackboard module
- Log in to My Birkbeck Profile (check our troubleshooting guide if you can't login)
- Find your school or department
- Online Library Induction (LIFE)
Getting started: Undergraduate, postgraduate and MPhil/PhD students
- Register as a new degree student
- Enrol online
- Make arrangements to pay your fees
- Find out about financial support
- Sign up for an orientation or induction event
- Student Guide
for all new students - Get Ahead: Stay Ahead - information and interactive tutorials for new undergraduate students to help you get the best possible start to your course and support during your studies
- Get your ITS username and password
- Get your Birkbeck student card
- If you are studying in Stratford, how to get your UEL student card
- Check that we have the right address for you
- Log in to your computer account and top up your print account
- Log in to BLE / Blackboard if you are taking a BLE / Blackboard module
- Log in to My Birkbeck Profile (check our troubleshooting guide if you can't login)
- Find your school or department
- Online Library Induction (LIFE)
Life at Birkbeck
- Getting to know Birkbeck and our student support services
- Surviving your first term
- Find your school or department
- Student Guide for all new students
- Get Ahead: Stay Ahead - information and interactive tutorials to help you get the best possible start to your course and support during your studies
If you want talk to someone, please contact the My Birkbeck helpdesk, where a member of our staff will be able to advise you or point you in the right direction for help.
