Whether you're looking to progress from your current role, change industries, or simply explore the subject you're passionate about, we have a range of courses available to choose from.
We’ll develop your confidence, knowledge and appetite for a challenge. You'll be supported by the spirit of warmth, community and innovation as you take your next steps — to continue your academic growth at a university full of opportunities and where outstanding teaching and learning come as standard.
Our postgraduate subjects
Childhood, Education, and Teacher Training
Designed and delivered to prepare you for your future career, our Childhood, Education and Teacher Training courses are hands-on, contemporary and innovative.
Criminology and Policing
From frontline policing to the psychology and sociology of crime, NTU’s criminology and policing courses are stand the cutting-edge of this exciting field.
English Language Teaching
Develop your English language and teaching skills with NTU’s rewarding and career-focused English language teaching courses.
English, Linguistics and Creative Writing
Join NTU’s passionate community of experts, authors, poets, and researchers — all here to nurture your talents as an independent, creative communicator.
Health and Allied Professions
Through work-based learning and teaching from qualified experts in the areas of social work and health care, our undergraduate courses will help you build the knowledge and skills to help shape the lives of vulnerable people.
History and Heritage
Study history and heritage. Learn from the past. Use your analytical thinking to create a better future. Open up endless career possibilities by challenging your digital literacy and developing much sought-after interpretive and communication skills.
Journalism
Give a voice to the voiceless. Challenge the narrative. Shape the future conversation. Your confidence, judgement and communication skills will open doors for you to tell the stories that matter.
Media, Communications, Film and Television
Are you an inspiring creative with a passion for film, photography or television? Make your mark on one of society’s most powerful influencers with one of our diverse degree courses.
Politics and International Relations
Are you fascinated by our changing world? Passionate about current affairs? See yourself working in local government or at the UN? Our internationally recognised research directly feeds into your degree, making sure you’re learning about the latest findings in your field.
Psychology
By choosing Psychology at NTU, you'll explore the secrets of what makes us human, what it means to be alive, and why we behave in the ways we do.
Social Work and Care
Begin your rewarding career in social work and care on a course at NTU, and start making a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and communities.
Sociology
Develop your understanding of our societies, cultures and social issues with a sociology course at NTU.
Youth
From education and support work to crime and social justice, you can make a positive impact on young people with a youth course at NTU.
Open days and campus tours
Visiting us at an open day is the perfect way to experience life and learning as built environment, architecture and design students at NTU.
Book your place at our next postgraduate open day.
Visit us virtually
If visiting us in person isn't a possibility for you right now, our on-demand virtual experience can give you a sense of what it's like to visit NTU at its very best.
More about Social Sciences
About the School of Social Sciences
The School of Social Sciences is characterised by our diversity and dynamism; the scope and standards of our courses; our globally acclaimed research; and our reputation for producing well-trained, highly skilled graduates.
Facilities at the School of Social Sciences
The School of Social Sciences is characterised by our diversity and dynamism; the scope and standards of our courses; our globally acclaimed research; and our reputation for producing well-trained, highly skilled graduates.
Research in Social Sciences
We couldn’t claim to be a leading provider of professional qualifications without the bedrock of our acclaimed research culture. It’s a symbiotic relationship, where the credentials of one inform the capacity of the other.