Schools and departments

We have an outstanding reputation for imaginative, critical and creative courses, taught by leading academics, artists, writers and playwrights. Come and pursue your love of literature, theatre and performance with like-minded enthusiasts.

Our department is a centre of interdisciplinary research across film, television and media, including journalism, the history of media and technology, the creative industries, digital media and practice-led research.

Established 50 years ago, our department is an internationally respected centre for teaching and research. We are located near world-class galleries, museums and collections and we have our own exhibition space, the Peltz Gallery.

We offer a range of modern language courses, as well as programmes in linguistics and language, intercultural communication, language teaching, TESOL, education and lifelong learning.

One of the UK’s first computing departments, we offer stimulating, cutting-edge teaching and research in a friendly, inclusive and collaborative environment.

We have an excellent reputation for the quality of our research and training: the Treasury, the Bank of England and many other high-profile employers hire our academics to train their staff.

Our department is based in the Clore Management Centre, a purpose-built teaching and research facility, and we offer invigorating courses in accounting, business, management, marketing, sports management and more.

Established in 1962, ours was the first department of occupational psychology in the UK and we remain at the cutting-edge of the fields of occupational psychology and organizational behaviour.

With a proud tradition of critical scholarship in criminology and an internationally recognised research profile, our department immerses students in rigorous, socially engaged scholarship and teaching.

Specialising in critical legal education and engaging in internationally recognised research, our department offers a stimulating, dynamic environment for students and academics.

Ours is a world-class department, offering state-of-the-art, specialist laboratories and facilities and a first-class scientific learning environment at the heart of academic London.

We offer degrees in geology and planetary science and astronomy in a research-focused department. Our teaching combines lectures and 20+ years' experience delivering distance learning to build an environment that works for all.

We have offered courses in psychology since 1939 and our department is a vibrant centre of psychological research and training. Our world-leading academics specialise in child development, education, neuroscience and cognition.

Our staff are renowned for ground-breaking work in areas of critical contemporary importance, including cities and urbanisation, environment and climate change, geographic information systems, international development, social inequality and cultural change.

Our department is a centre of original, influential research, highly ranked for its world-leading and internationally excellent research. Our stimulating teaching and wide-ranging courses encompass fascinating periods and topics, from human prehistory to the contemporary world.

Our department is a distinguished centre of research and training excellence in philosophy. Our courses are designed to encourage you to think independently about the most vital questions in philosophy and its history.

The Department of Politics is a distinguished centre of interdisciplinary research, with a strong reputation for the quality of our teaching. Our central London location puts us at the heart of the UK's political life and at the centre of academic London.

We carry out critical, socially engaged research and we are at the forefront of the development of the innovative, expanding interdisciplinary field of psychosocial studies, which stretches across, and draws from, the social sciences, psychology, psychoanalysis and the arts and humanities.