The Graduate School at the University of Leicester

The University of Leicester is one of the UK's top research universities with an international reputation that stems from the distinctive synergy between our research and our teaching.

Postgraduate education is central to the University's mission and postgraduates make up nearly half of all our students. Our postgraduate community has over 11,000 members with students on research and taught programmes based on campus at Leicester and around the world on our flexible distance learning postgraduate programmes.

The Graduate School is at the heart of our postgraduate community.

About the Graduate School

We have one of the UK's largest and most vibrant Graduate Schools with some 11,000 postgraduates:

• The Graduate Dean
• Directors of Postgraduate Research
• Postgraduate Research Policy Committee
• Departmental Postgraduate Tutors
• Graduate School Officer

Postgraduate Education at Leicester

Learn more about our taught and research postgraduate programmes - including distance learning Masters degree and PhD courses

Graduate School Reading Room

The Reading Room is a unique resource and a hub for our postgraduate community

Graduate School Office

Administrative support and services for current postgraduate researchers