UCL (University College London) is London’s leading multidisciplinary university, with 8,000 staff and 22,000 students. Over 140 nationalities are represented among UCL students with international students making up nearly a third of the student body.
Based in the heart of London, UCL was the first university in England to welcome students of any class, race or religion, and the first to welcome women on equal terms with men. This same radical spirit thrives today. We are now ranked seventh in the world by The Times Higher – QS World University Rankings. Our excellence extends across all academic disciplines.
Rated by both The Times and The Guardian as the best information school in the UK, the fact that the UCL Department of Information Studies offers a high quality teaching environment should come as no surprise. This is all because of: our dedicated, professional staff – many of whom are the best selling authors of the standard textbooks that are compulsory reading; small class sizes; the high quality of our students; and our highly personal and caring culture.
We largely teach at the postgraduate level and offer probably the widest range of information disciplines in the country, covering the fields of Librarianship, Information Science, Archives, Records Management, Electronic Communications and Publishing. By offering such a wide range of fields we not only provide extensive professional choice but also, via option modules etc, the important context in which to study the individual information discipline of your choice. Whatever the field chosen, our prime objective is to provide students with professionally relevant skills which prepare them to function at the very highest managerial level.
The Department has a long tradition of welcoming international students on all its programmes. Many graduates go on to become leading information professionals in their home countries.
We currently offer the following postgraduate programmes:-
Taught postgraduate programmes (one year, full-time):
- MA Records & Archives Management (International)
- MA Archives & Records Management
- MA Electronic Communication & Publishing
- MA Library & Information Studies
- MA Publishing
- MSc Information Science
- MRes Library, Archive & Information Studies
Research (three years, full-time):
MPhil/PhD
Many of the modules from the taught programmes can be taken as a short course and are open to information professionals wishing to update their professional skills (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/teaching/cpd-short-courses/).
For further information on all our programmes please contact us by email or visit our website:-
dis@ucl.ac.uk
http://www.infostudies.ucl.ac.uk/
We look forward to hearing from you!
