Programme specifications 2025-26
Please select each level heading to view a full list of programme specifications at that level within that school.
Programme specifications are regularly updated by schools when changes are made to core or compulsory modules, but all options lists are indicative only, as the availability of options can vary each year.
Programmes with pathways show the pathways indented.
Faculty of Business and Law
Birkbeck Business School
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Undergraduate programmes
- BBA Culinary Industry Management (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (11.12.23)
- BSc Accounting (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (19.06.25)
- BSc Accounting and Finance (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (19.12.24)
- BSc Business (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (19.06.25)
- BSc Business Analytics (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (19.06.25)
- BSc Business and Human Resource Management (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (12.12.23)
- BSc Business Psychology (PDF) (19.06.25)
- BSc Economics (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (04.04.25)
- BSc Economics and Business (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (12.12.23)
- BSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation (including with Foundation Year) (19.06.25)
- BSc Finance (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (26.02.24)
- BSc Financial Economics (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (04.04.25)
- BSc International Business (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (19.06.25)
- BSc Management (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (19.06.25)
- BSc Marketing (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (20.06.24)
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Postgraduate programmes
- Grad Dip Economics (PDF) (04.11.22)
- PG Cert Career Coaching and Coaching Psychology (PDF) (17.01.24)
- PG Cert Econometrics (PDF) (23.08.22)
- MA International Business Management (PDF) (10.07.25)
- MA Organizational Studies (PDF) (01.07.25)
- MSc Accounting and Finance (PDF) (21.02.23)
- MSc Applied AI (PDF) (23.07.24)
- MSc Banking and Finance (PDF) (09.05.25)
- MSc Business Analytics (PDF) (28.03.23)
- MSc Career Coaching and Psychology (PDF) (17.01.24)
- MSc Culinary Innovation Management (PDF) (17.01.24)
- MSc Digital Business (PDF) (12.03.24)
- MSc Economics (PDF) (04.07.25)
- MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation (PDF) (24.06.25)
- MSc Finance (PDF) (04.07.25)
- MSc Finance and Data Analytics (PDF) (27.02.23)
- MSc Financial Economics (PDF) (04.07.25)
- MSc Hospitality Innovation Management (PDF) (25.02.25)
- MSc Human Resource Management (PDF) (16.08.23)
- MSc Human Resource Management (Generalist)
- MSc Human Resource Management (Development and Consultancy)
- MSc International Business (PDF) (22.04.24)
- MSc Management (PDF) (12.03.24)
- MSc Management Consultancy and Organisational Change (PDF) (26.08.22)
- MSc Management with Business Innovation (PDF) (17.01.24)
- MSc Management with International Business (PDF) (27.02.23)
- MSc Management with Marketing (PDF) (27.02.23)
- MSc Management and Finance (PDF) (27.02.23)
- MSc Marketing (PDF) (29.04.24)
- MSc Marketing Analytics (PDF) (29.02.24)
- MSc Organizational Governance and Sustainability (PDF) (10.04.24)
- MSc Organizational Psychology (PDF) (22.03.24)
- MSc Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PDF) (17.11.25)
- MSc Quantitative Finance with Data Science (PDF) (30.07.24)
- MSc Sport Management (PDF) (17.10.23)
- MSc Sport Management and Marketing (PDF) (22.03.24)
- MSc Sport Management and the Business of Football (PDF) (17.10.23)
- MRes Management (PDF) (06.03.23)
- MPhil Management (PDF) (28.11.22)
- Professional Doctorate Evidence-Based Human Resource Management (suspended)
- Professional Doctorate Occupational Psychology (PDF) (see 2024-25 specification - next intake Oct 2026-27)
BIRKBECK LAW SCHOOL
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Undergraduate programmes
- LLB Law (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (26.06.25)
- LLB Law and Commercial Law
- LLB Law and Human Rights
- LLB Law and Legal Practice
- LLB Law with Environmental Studies
- LLB Law and Business (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (28.06.25)
- LLB Law and Language (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (28.06.25)
- LLB Law (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (26.06.25)
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Postgraduate programmes
- Graduate Diploma Law (PDF) (30.09.22)
- LLM Law with pathways (PDF) (10.09.25)
- LLM Law General
- LLM Law with Commercial Law
- LLM Law with Constitutional Politics, Law and Theory
- LLM Law with Environmental Law, Governance and Policy
- LLM Law with International Law and Development
- LLM Law with Human Rights
- LLM Law with Law and New Technologies
- LLM Law with International Intellectual Property
- LLM Qualifying Law Degree (PDF) (08.08.25)
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Centre for Counselling
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Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Counselling and Counselling Skills (PDF) (18.07.25)
- Cert HE Psychodynamic Counselling (PDF) (06.07.20)
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Postgraduate programmes
- Grad Cert Foundation for Counselling and Psychotherapy Training (PDF) (17.11.21)
- PG Dip Couple Therapy for Depression (PDF) (09.08.23)
- MA\PG Dip Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (PDF) (21.02.23)
- MSc Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (PDF) (12.08.22)
- MSc Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents (PDF) (11.07.22)
- MSc/PG Dip Psychodynamics of Human Development (PDF) (12.08.22)
School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
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Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Arts Management (PDF) (05.06.24) (suspended)
- Cert HE Culture and Language (PDF) (11.08.25)
- Cert HE Film and Media Studies (PDF) (18.07.25)
- Cert HE Journalism (PDF) (18.07.25)
- Cert HE Linguistics and Language (PDF) (23.05.24)
- Cert HE Media Practice (PDF) (18.07.25)
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Undergraduate programmes
- Arts Foundation Year (PDF) (01.08.21)
- BA Creative Writing (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (08.08.22)
- BA Creative Writing and English (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (08.08.22)
- BA Digital Media (including with Foundation Year (PDF) (01.09.25)
- BA Digital Media and Creative Practice
- BA Digital Media with Marketing
- BA Digital Media with Business Analytics
- BA Digital Media with Environmental Studies
- BA Digital Media and Language (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (23.05.24)
- BA English (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (06.06.25)
- BA English and Language (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (23.05.24)
- BA English and Linguistics (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (update in progress)
- BA Environment, Culture and Communication (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (06.12.24)
- BA Film and Media (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (01.09.25)
- BA Film and Media Practice
- BA Film and Media with Screenwriting
- BA Film and Media with Environmental Studies
- BA Film, Media and Language (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (23.05.24)
- BA Japanese Studies/BA Japanese Studies with International Experience (PDF) (23.05.24)
- BA Journalism and Language (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (23.05.24)
- BA Journalism and Media (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (01.09.25)
- BA Journalism and Digital Media
- BA Journalism and Media with Environmental Studies
- BA Language Teaching and Languages (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (17.10.24)
- BA Liberal Arts (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (16.06.25)
- BA Linguistics and Language (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (25.11.24)
- BA Modern Languages (including with Foundation Year)/BA Modern Languages with International Experience (PDF) (25.05.24)
- BA Theatre Studies (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (22.01.25)
- BA Theatre Studies with Film and Media
- BA Theatre Studies with English
- BA Theatre Studies with Creative Writing
- BA Theatre Studies with Arts Management
- BA Theatre Studies with Environmental Studies
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Postgraduate programmes
- Grad Cert Linguistic Studies (PDF) (22.11.22)
- Grad Dip French Studies (PDF) (26.01.23)
- Grad Dip German Studies (PDF) (26.01.23)
- Grad Dip Japanese Studies (PDF) (30.01.23)
- Grad Dip Spanish and Latin American Studies (PDF) (28.04.23)
- PG Cert Digital Media Management (PDF) (08.09.23)
- PG Cert Language Teaching/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (PDF) (08.04.25)
- PG Cert Web Design and Development (PDF) (07.02.23)
- PG Dip Language Teaching/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (PDF) (08.04.25)
- MA Applied Linguistics and Communication (PDF) (08.04.25)
- MA/PG Dip/PG Cert Creative Industries Management and Policy (PDF) (09.04.24)
- MA Creative Writing (PDF) (16.04.25)
- MA Creative and Critical Writing
- MA Digital Media Culture (PDF) (06.06.23)
- MA Digital Media Design (PDF) (06.02.23)
- MA Digital Media Management (PDF) (28.11.22)
- MA English Literature and Culture (PDF) (08.11.24)
- MA Film and Screen Media (PDF) (26.05.24)
- MA Film and Screen Media (with Study Abroad)
- MA Film and Screen Media with Film Programming and Curating
- MA Film and Screen Media with Television
- MA Film Programming and Curating (PDF) (30.05.23)
- MA/PG Dip/PG Cert Journalism (PDF) (18.04.24)
- MA Investigative Journalism
- MA Language Teaching/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (PDF) (08.04.25)
- MA Medical and Health Humanities (PDF) (16.04.25)
- MA/MRes Modern Languages and Comparative Literatures (PDF) (25.09.23)
- MA/PG Cert Screenwriting (PDF) (26.11.24)
- MA Theatre and Performance (PDF) (23.09.25)
- MA Theatre and Performance: Theatre Making
- MA Theatre and Performance: Dramaturgy
- MA Theatre and Performance: Writing for Performance
- MA Writing for Screen and Stage (PDF) (14.10.24)
- MFA Theatre Directing (PDF) (27.10.22)
School of Historical Studies
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Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Art History (PDF) (25.03.24)
- Cert HE History and Archaeology (PDF) (24.04.23)
- Cert HE Philosophy (PDF) (01.11.22)
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Undergraduate programmes
- BA Archaeology (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (01.09.25)
- BA Archaeology with Environmental Studies
- BA Ancient History and Archaeology (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (11.06.24)
- BA Art History (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (25.05.25)
- BA Art History and Language (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (11.06.24)
- BA Art History with Curating (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (11.06.24)
- BA Classical Studies (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (01.09.25)
- BA Classical Studies with Environmental Studies
- BA Classics (PDF) (14.05.24)
- BA History (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (01.09.25)
- BA History with Environmental Studies
- BA History and Language (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (11.06.24)
- BA Philosophy (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (07.04.25)
- BA Archaeology (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (01.09.25)
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Postgraduate programmes
- Grad Cert Art History (PDF) (25.04.24)
- Grad Dip Art History (PDF) (25.03.24)
- Grad Cert History (PDF) (01.05.20)
- PG Cert Curating and Collections Management (PDF) (10.12.21)
- PG Cert Philosophy (PDF) (01.11.22)
- PG Dip Philosophy (PDF) (01.11.22)
- MA AI, Ethics and Society (PDF) (18.06.24)
- MA Archaeology and Heritage (PDF) (06.02.24)
- MA Classical Civilisation (PDF) (03.11.23)
- MA Classics (PDF) (06.11.23)
- MA Contemporary History and Politics (PDF) (31.05.23)
- MA European History (PDF) (01.07.24)
- MA Global History: Empires, States and Cultures (PDF) (01.07.24)
- MA Historical Research (PDF) (09.08.22)
- MA History of Art (PDF) (24.03.23)
- MA History of Art with Collections Management (PDF) (24.03.23)
- MA History of Art with Curating (PDF) (24.03.23)
- MA History of Photography (PDF) (24.03.23)
- MA History of Photography with Curating (PDF) (24.03.23)
- MA Museum Cultures (PDF) (17.09.25)
- MA Museum Cultures with Collections Management (PDF) (17.09.25)
- MA Museum Cultures with Curating (PDF) (17.09.25)
- MA Philosophy (PDF) (01.02.24)
- MA Public History and Heritage (PDF) (01.07.24)
- MSc Archaeological Practice (Economic and Social Research) (PDF) (02.08.22)
- MSc Historical Research (Economic and Social History) (PDF) (09.08.22)
- MRes History (PDF) (10.08.22)
- MRes Philosophy (PDF) (01.11.22)
School of Social Sciences
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Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Criminology (PDF) (01.08.13)
- Cert HE Politics and International Studies (PDF) (21.04.23)
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Undergraduate programmes
- BA Global Politics and International Relations (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (04.06.25)
- BA Global Politics and Language (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (23.05.24)
- BA Politics (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (17.06.25)
- BA Politics and Language (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (23.05.24)
- BA Politics, Philosophy and History (PDF) (17.06.25)
- BA Psychosocial Studies (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (03.08.22)
- BA Psychosocial Studies with Principles of Psychodynamic Counselling (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (03.08.22)
- BA Social and Political Sciences (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (20.06.23)
- BA Sociology (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (03.08.22)
- BA Sociology and Criminology (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (update in progress)
- BSc Criminology and Criminal Justice (PDF) (update in progress)
- BSc Environment and Sustainability (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (04.07.25)
- BSc Geography (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (04.07.25)
- BSc Health and Social Care (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (22.05.25)
- BSc Health and Social Care with Professional Practice
- BA Health and Social Care
- BA Health and Social Care with Professional Practice
- Above titles with Environmental Studies
- BSc Health and Social Care and Management (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (28.06.24)
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Postgraduate programmes
- Grad Cert Psychosocial Studies (PDF) (15.11.22)
- PG Cert Social Research (PDF) (20.10.22)
- PG Dip Social Research (PDF) (20.10.22)
- MA/LLM Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (PDF) (11.04.25)
- MA/PG Dip/PG Cert Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity (PDF) (10.08.22)
- MA/MSc Gender and Sexuality Studies (PDF) (03.03.25)
- MA Psychoanalytic Studies (PDF) (21.05.25)
- MA Psychosocial Studies (PDF) (07.06.24)
- MA Sociology (PDF) (22.07.24)
- MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert Climate Change (PDF) (30.06.25)
- MSc Criminology (PDF) (05.04.22)
- MSc Criminology (Criminal Justice)
- MSc Criminology (Gender and Sexuality)
- MSc Criminology (Racial Justice)
- MSc Criminology (Global Perspectives)
- MSc Criminology (Public Policy)
- MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert Environment and Sustainability (PDF) (30.06.25)
- MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert Geographic Data Science (PDF) (16.05.24)
- MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert Geography (PDF) (30.06.25)
- MSc Global Political Economy (PDF) (19.06.25)
- MSc Government, Policy and Politics (PDF) (19.06.25)
- MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert International Development and Social Justice (PDF) (30.06.25)
- MSc International Relations (PDF) (19.06.25)
- MSc International Security and Global Governance (PDF) (03.05.23)
- MSc Political Communication (PDF) (19.06.25)
- MSc Public Policy and Management (PDF) (02.04.25)
- MSc Social and Political Theory (PDF) (suspended)
- MSc Social Research (PDF) (20.10.22)
- MSc Sustainable Cities (PDF) (17.04.25)
- MRes Politics (PDF) (25.04.25)
- MRes Social Research and Applied Linguistics (PDF) (29.11.22)
- MRes Social Research and Criminology (PDF) (29.11.22)
- MRes Social Research and Gender and Sexuality (PDF) (29.11.22)
- MRes Social Research and Law and Legal Studies (PDF) (29.11.22)
- MRes Social Research and Psychosocial Studies (PDF) (29.11.22)
Faculty of Science
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
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Undergraduate programmes
- BSc Business Computing (PDF) (21.11.24)
- BSc Computer Science (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (19.06.25)
- BSc Computer Science with AI (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (11.11.24)
- BSc Data Science (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (21.11.24)
- BSc Mathematics and Computer Science (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (21.11.24)
- BSc Mathematics and Data Science (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (21.11.24)
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Postgraduate programmes
- Grad Cert Mathematics (PDF) (09.11.22)
- Grad Dip Mathematics (PDF) (09.11.22)
- PG Cert Applied Data Science (PDF) (12.09.22)
- PG Cert Applied Statistics (PDF) (01.11.22)
- MSc Advanced Computing (PDF) (14.01.24)
- MSc Data Analytics and AI
- MSc Applied Statistics (PDF) (17.05.23)
- MSc Applied Statistics and Computational Data Analysis
- MSc Applied Statistics and Financial Modelling (PDF) (17.05.23)
- MSc Computer Science (PDF) (12.07.24)
- MSc Data Science (PDF) (24.07.24)
- MSc Data Science and AI
School of Natural Sciences
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Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Geology (PDF) (23.08.23)
- Cert HE Life Sciences for Subjects allied to Medicine (PDF) (16.10.24)
- Cert HE Planetary Science with Astronomy (PDF) (07.11.22)
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Undergraduate programmes
- BSc Biomedicine (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (19.07.24)
- BSc Biomedicine and Public Health
- BSc Bioscience with Management (PDF) (08.10.24)
- BSc Environmental Geoscience (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (06.12.24)
- BSc Geology (PDF) (16.05.25)
- BSc Natural Sciences (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (10.06.25)
- BSc Planetary Exploration with Astronomy and Astrobiology (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (26.11.24)
- BSc Biomedicine (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (19.07.24)
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4-Year Integrated Master's Programme
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Postgraduate programmes
- PG Cert Structural Molecular Biology (PDF) (16.12.22)
- MSc/PG Dip Analytical Bioscience (PDF) (25.05.23)
- MSc/PG Dip Analytical Chemistry (PDF) (30.08.22)
- MSc Astrobiology (PDF) (07.05.24)
- MSc Bioinformatics (PDF) (30.08.22)
- MSc Microbiology (PDF) (05.06.23)
- MSc/PG Dip Structural Molecular Biology (PDF) (24.05.23)
- MRes Biological Sciences pathways (PDF) (15.12.22)
- MRes Bioinformatics
- MRes Chemical Research
- MRes Global and Infectious Diseases
- MRes Structural Biology
School of Psychological Sciences
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Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Applied Psychology (PDF) (30.04.25)
- Cert HE Psychology (PDF) (30.04.25)
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Undergraduate programmes
- BSc Psychology (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (06.01.25)
- BSc Psychology with Neuroscience
- BSc Psychology with Child Development
- BSc Psychology in Practice
- BA Psychology in Practice
- BA Psychology
- BA Psychological Studies (PDF) (25.03.25)
- BA Psychological Studies (Child Development and Education) (PDF) (25.03.25)
- BSc Psychology (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (06.01.25)
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Postgraduate programmes
- PG Cert Neurodiversity Coaching (PDF) (15.09.25)
- MSc/MA Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology (PDF) (21.05.25)
- MSc/MA Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence (PDF) (21.05.25)
- MSc/MA Developmental Science and Neurodiversity (PDF) (21.05.25)
- MSc/MA Educational Neuroscience (PDF) (21.05.25)
- MSc/MA Health and Clinical Psychological Sciences (PDF) (21.05.25)
- MSc Psychological Research Methods (PDF) (29.05.24)
- MSc Psychology (Conversion) (PDF) (21.05.25)
- MRes Psychology (PDF) (05.05.15)