Postgraduate Courses

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Taught Masters Courses

Postgraduate courses from UK universities are divided into Taught Masters and Research courses (PhDs). Taught Masters and Research Masters normally require one year of full-time study although there are some exceptions that may take two years to complete. Masters programmes are delivered through different teaching methodologies, depending on the type of programme, and could include seminars, tutorials, laboratory work, group assignments, classroom based teaching as well as individual research. During the last semester of a Masters course students often have to prepare a research project or dissertation.

There are many different Masters courses offered at UK universities but the two most common titles one comes across are the:

• MA (Master of Arts) - Relating to studies in the Social Sciences, Arts or Humanities
• MSc (Master of Science) - Relating to studies in the Sciences
• MEng (Master of Engineering) - Relating to Engineering disciplines

Then there are many other specialisation Masters such as the popular MBA (Masters in Business Administration), MArch (Masters in Architecture), LLM (Masters of Law) or MRes (Masters of Research)

Overseas students that want to apply for a Taught Masters course are usually required to have successfully completed an Undergraduate degree course in their home country and need to have obtained a high academic level.

Research Courses (PhD/Doctorate)

In order to obtain a PhD (Latin for Philosophiae Doctor/Doctor of Philosophy) students are required to have completed at least a minimum of three years highly specialized graduate study/research.

In order for students to qualify for PhD study they need to have completed an Undergraduate and/or a Masters course, to a high academic standard. When students apply for PhD study they are initially registered for the MPhil (Master of Philosophy) and not until they have shown satisfactory progress are they allowed into the final years of the PhD programme.

The universities we represent

The universities that Intercambio represents offer hundreds of different postgraduate Taught Masters courses and Research/PhD programmes covering any specialisation you can think of.

• The University of Sheffield
• Sheffield Hallam University
• The University of Aberdeen
• Kaplan International Colleges
• Cranfield University
• The University of Glasgow
• The University of Liverpool
• Nottingham Trent University
• University of Westminster
• City University London
• The University of Brighton