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College of Social Science
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH
UK

Tel: +44 (0)116 252 3875
Email: socsci@leicester.ac.uk

Research Student Generic Skills Training Programme

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The next Research Student Generic Skills Training Programme is being held on Tuesday 14 February 2012.  A copy of the programme can be found here...

Santander Travel Awards 2011-12

For University of Leicester staff and students - awards to enable staff and students to travel to countries within the Santander Universities Network.  For further details...

Loans for Leicestershire Postgraduates

Sir Thomas White Loan Charity offers loans to postgraduate applicants/students who are aged between 18 and 35 and have lived in Leicestershire for the past five years.  For further details...

Distance Learning

Interested in studying via Distance Learning? Follow this link to find out more about Distance Learning courses within the College of Social Science.

 

College of Social Science

Welcome to the College of Social Science.

The College includes a wide range of social science disciplines and supports interdisciplinary work across its departments and diverse research centres. It is home to approximately 11,500 The Attenborough Towerstudents and 400 staff.

The departments and research centres listed below are all members of the College.

Labour Market Studies

We are passionate about both teaching and research and committed to providing our students with a research-led teaching environment where academic excellence is combined with a friendly student-centred learning experience. The excellence of our research was recognised in the 2008 National Research Assessment Exercise, with 84% of our research activity classified as internationally significant.

One of the hallmarks of the College is its diversity. Our students and staff come from many different countries. Nearly one-third of our campus-based students come from overseas and they make a valuable contribution to the international atmosphere of the College. We also welcome students from all backgrounds and are committed to providing excellent opportunities for everyone. Many of our students study by distance learning and benefit from the innovative teaching methods we have developed and implemented at Leicester.

The quality of our teaching is recognised consistently in the national annual university league tables. For example, the School of Management was ranked sixth in The Guardian 2011 survey, and the Department of Media and Communication ranked second in the Times 2011 survey, and third in The Independent 2011 survey.

The College’s students give their courses consistently high rankings in the National Student Survey. In the most recent survey our students were overwhelmingly positive about their experience with us. For example, 97% of students in Lifelong Learning, 95% of students in Politics and International Relations, and 90% of students in Sociology declared themselves satisfied with their programmes.