Shape the future with a graduate research degree at UCL

Shape the future with a graduate research degree at UCL

• Benefit from outstanding teaching at a global top-10 university, learning from world-renowned experts at the forefront of their field.  
• Study in vibrant and diverse London, one of the world’s great employment capitals and QS best student city in the world 6 years running.
• Career dreams can become 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? 

UCL is consistently ranked in the top 10 world universities (QS World University Rankings), and was named University of the Year 2024 by the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide.

UCL leads in research power in London (REF 2021), and the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF 2023) judged that UCL’s Student Outcomes are ‘Outstanding’.

UCL is London’s most sought-after university by graduate employers (High Fliers Report The Graduate Market in 2024)

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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