Education is a driving force for a better and more just world. The Education Studies BA at the world-leading UCL Institute of Education is an interdisciplinary degree supporting future generations to understand and critically reflect on education and society to become leaders of societal change.

Degree benefits

• Our students are introduced to a broad set of social science subjects through which they gain an interdisciplinary understanding of education, and of the ways in which humans develop and flourish throughout their lives. This Programme was recently ranked number 1 by 'Education' subject area in The Guardian's 'Best UK universities for education – league table' 2021.

• Students learn to think about education as not only being something that happens in schools and classrooms, but as a driving force for change relevant to how we think about workplaces, the media, globalisation, migration, politics, social justice, and the economy.

• Students are taught by, and work alongside, active researchers at the UCL Institute of Education, ranked as the leading university in the world for studying and researching Education for the past eight years (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021).

Your learning

The programme seeks to help each student acquire a common set of intellectual skills and develop their own unique and principled voice for writing and speaking about education in the world. It does this through a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops, field trips, multimedia sessions, and individual and collective research and community organising projects.

Assessment

We use a wide range of assessment methods that are carefully developed across all our programme's modules to develop students' thinking and writing skills. These include student argumentative academic essays, journals and portfolios, empirical research assignments, multimedia projects, group discussions and debates, individual and collective presentations, writing drafts and outlines, and examinations.

Careers

In addition to subject knowledge and skills, you will develop a range of transferable skills such as research skills, leadership skills, communication skills, critical and creative thinking skills. We prepare students to use their subject expertise in education for a wide variety of careers in policy, schools, communities and international organisations. Students gain the intellectual tools to enable them to take a lead role in transforming how we think about and practise education, wherever they go in their work, community and personal lives. We support our students' transition to work and/or postgraduate study through tailored career events developed in collaboration with UCL Careers.