Student services
We offer a range of services and information to help you while you're at Birkbeck. If you want to talk to someone, or get face-to-face advice, please contact our My Birkbeck helpdesk.
Application, enrolment and registration
- Enrolling on Certificates of Higher Education or short courses
- Applying for our undergraduate, postgraduate and MPhil/PhD courses
- International students - how to apply
- Birkbeck courses A-Z
- Application deadlines and interviews
- What happens once you apply?
- The offer of admission
- New student registration
- Undergraduate, postgraduate or MPhil/PhD degree enrolment
- Contact details
Get Ahead Summer Programmes
- A series of free workshops in June each year to help you prepare and get ready for your course at Birkbeck.
- Get Ahead Undergraduate Summer Programme
- Get Ahead Postgraduate Summer Programme
Orientation events
- Orientation events are designed to introduce you to the College and help you get the best possible to your studies.
- September orientation event for all new students
- January orientation event for all new students
- International students' orientation
- Orientation event for new students studying in Stratford
- Advice and information for new students
- Download the 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.
Support services A-Z
- Academic support
- Accommodation
- Birkbeck Graduate Research School
- Careers
- Computing and IT
- Counselling
- Disability and dyslexia
- English language modules
- Financial support
- Forms
- Get Ahead: Stay Ahead tutorials
- Getting started at Birkbeck
- Graduation ceremonies
- Health services
- International students office
- Learning support and skills training
- Library
- Lockers
- Moodle
- My Birkbeck Student Centre
- Nursery
- Orientation events
- Rules and regulations
- Students' Union
- Studying in Stratford
- Volunteering
About you
- Your student card
- Your student records
- Proof of student status
- Studying in Stratford
- Transport for London discount
- Your username and password
- Your print account
- Your computer account
- Your email
- Student feedback
Examinations and assessment
- Accredited Prior Learning (APL)
- Assessment by level
- Coursework: essays, fieldwork projects, presentations
- Types of Coursework
- Exams procedures and information
- MPhil / PhD dissertations
- Plagiarism and other assessment offences
- Assessment re-entry fees for non-enrolled students
- Marking criteria
- When and how do I get my results?
- Learning support for exams and assessment
- Re-entering coursework for assessment
- Mitigating circumstances
- Intercollegiate module procedures
- Registry contact details
