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Your degree, your choice

On most of our undergraduate courses, you can choose to include work placements, study abroad, and optional units, helping you make the most of your degree.

Your first year of study gives you an introduction to your subject. On most of our courses, you can then choose from a range of optional units as well as the core units of your course.

You can choose from a range of units you're most interested in and form your own path to complete your degree.

This flexibility helps you specialise as you work towards where you want to go after university.

Build on your strengths

Develop your knowledge and skills based on your individual interests, academic strengths, and career aspirations.

We offer over 190 undergraduate degrees in subjects including engineering, humanities, management, science, and social science, taught by academics who are experts in their fields. You will directly benefit from their knowledge and be able to develop your own interests.

You'll also have access to:

  • a range of study spaces, on campus and in town, to help you learn in an environment that suits you
  • opportunities to develop additional skills to help you study and prepare for future employment

Course structure

Depending on your choices for your degree, you could study for two to five years.

All our undergraduate courses are full-time, so depending on your degree, your course could be:

  • two years leading to a foundation degree (with the option of a top-up leading to a BSc)
  • three years leading to a BA or BSc honours degree
  • four years (including an optional placement or a study abroad year) leading to a BA or BSc honours degree
  • four years leading to a master's honours degree, such as MEng, MSci, or MMath
  • five years (including an optional placement or a study abroad year) leading to a master's honours degree, such as MEng or MPhys
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Gain work experience

Get real-world employment experience and use your classroom learning in a workplace environment.

We’ve been building our relationships with businesses through placements for almost 60 years, so you don’t need to have your own connections to find the placement you want.

Almost all of our courses provide the opportunity to complete a placement as part of the course.1

Some placements are paid, so you could earn a salary while you work, and you’ll normally pay a reduced tuition fee while you’re on your placement. You could even apply for funding to help you take a placement overseas.

Improve your employability with a placement
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Study abroad

Learn new skills and experience living and studying at another university in a foreign country.

You don’t have to study a language to go abroad as part of your undergraduate degree. You can choose courses that offer you the opportunity to study in places like Argentina, France, and New Zealand.

Studying abroad is a great way to develop skills, learn a new language, and have experiences that you will not get in the classroom.

Along with our partner institutions around the world, we’ll support you as you apply, find funding, and while you’re abroad.

Study abroad as part of your degree
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Apply for a master's

You can choose to study for a bachelor’s degree and then apply to do a master’s or, for many courses, you can apply for an undergraduate master's straight away.

Studying for a master's gives you a more in-depth experience than the usual bachelor's course. You could study advanced taught units, do project work, or have greater exposure to research topics and methods.

Studying for a master’s degree can also lead to further industry accreditations which are recognised and highly valued by employers.

Find out about studying for a master's
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  1. Placements can be mandatory or optional, depending on the course. For example, our Pharmacy course and our Social Work and Applied Social Studies course have mandatory work-based learning as part of the degree, not year-long placements. Our FdSc Sport (Sports Performance) course has a placement when taken with a bachelor’s top-up.  ↩