UCL Anthropology - funding options available

UCL Anthropology studies humanity in all its aspects: from our evolution as a species, to our relationship with the material world, and our vast variety of social practices and cultural forms.

The department is one of only a few broad-based anthropology departments in the UK, with our teaching and research spanning five key areas: Evolutionary and Environmental Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Material Culture, Medical Anthropology and Public Anthropology.

Key features and benefits

• Our Bloomsbury campus gives you access to all the incredible facilities that London has to offer, whilst our Stratford campus gives you access to state-of-the-art media studios.
• You will study at the top university in London, and 4^th in the world, for Anthropology (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024) and The Times and Sunday Times University of the Year 2024.
• You will study in a warm and welcoming department that is also one of the largest and broadest anthropology departments in the UK, which researches and teaches across five sub-sections, and which continually works to expand and reshape the discipline.

Student view

“The Anthropology department at UCL is a wonderful environment where I feel able to explore my interests with the support of world-leading academics. The lifelong friendships I have made here, and the opportunities available in London, have made a huge difference to me and have directly impacted my next steps in the world.

I wasn’t sure if higher education was for me, but I feel like a have a second home here.”

Nina, Medical Anthropology MSc

Courses

Taught degrees at Bloomsbury campus:

• Anthropology MRes
• Biosocial Medical Anthropology MSc
• Digital Anthropology MSc
• Environmental Anthropology MSc (formerly Anthropology, Environment and Development MSc)
• Human Evolution and Behaviour MSc
• Material and Visual Culture MA
• Medical Anthropology MSc
• Politics, Violence and Crime MSc
• Social and Cultural Anthropology MSc 

Taught degrees at Stratford campus, UCL East:

• Anthropology and Professional Practice MSc
• Audio Storytelling for Radio and Podcast MA
• Creative & Collaborative Enterprise MA
• Creative Documentary by Practice MFA
• Designing Audio Experiences: Art, Science and Production MA
• Ethnographic and Documentary Film (Practical) MA
• Immersive Factual Storytelling MA

Shape the future with UCL Social and Historical Sciences

We are an intellectually diverse and world-leading Faculty, with the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2024 placing our social sciences 14^th in the world and our arts and humanities disciplines 6^th.

We offer over 60 specialist postgraduate programmes in a range of subjects, investigating the social, political, economic, cultural and environmental processes that shape our world.

Alongside our programmes at UCL's historic campus in Bloomsbury, central London, we are delivering a range of exciting courses at UCL East, our pioneering new campus on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford in east London. 

Cutting-edge research lies at the heart of the faculty’s work. We are first in the UK for research power in the social sciences (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Scholarships and funding options

Funding for Master's study can be limited, so most students piece together different funding sources to cover their costs. Search our funding page to find out about the loans and financial awards available to help support you.

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