Shape the future with a graduate research degree at UCL

• Learn from leading academics at a global top 10 university, at the forefront of their field.
• Study in London, one of the best student cities in Europe (QS Best Student Cities 2026).
• Turn your career plans into reality with UCL’s connections to business, work placement opportunities and one to one career support.

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Graduate Research Degrees at UCL

When you undertake a research degree at UCL, you embark on an extraordinary journey, joining a vibrant community of around 8,000 research students and over 9,000 academic and research staff involved in research and supervision across our 11 faculties.

UCL is a centre of innovative cross-disciplinary research and has academic staff with some of the strongest backgrounds in their specialist fields in the world. We offer over 100 graduate research programmes across a wide range of disciplines and encourage our community to work across traditional subject boundaries.

Why choose UCL?

• Joint 8th in the world (QS World University Rankings 2027)
• 2nd in the UK for research power (REF 2021)
• 22 subjects in the global top 20 (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026)
• One of the most targeted universities in the UK by graduate employers (The Graduate Market 2026, High Fliers Research)
• Student Outcomes rated ‘Outstanding’ (TEF 2023)

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UCL Doctoral School

UCL Doctoral School is committed to ensuring that the quality of research training at UCL is at the highest international level. We aim to ensure that you as a research student or supervisor work in a high quality research training environment. We aim to develop creative rigorous researchers for both academic and non academic research careers across the world. Visit UCL Doctoral School