Section: Studying Social Policy
Postgraduate programmes in social and public policy are offered within the Graduate School of Social and Political Studies, which provides a vibrant, stimulating and multi-disciplinary environment for post-graduate study. How to apply. We have funding available for excellent students embarking on a MSc + PhD or a PhD programme.
We strongly advise students to submit their applications before mid-June, especially where they require an unconditional offer of study in order to secure a student visa. Complete applications may be considered after this stage, but the School can not guarantee that such applications will receive a decision in time for the start of studies in September 2011. We would invite students applying after June to contact the programme director before applying. Please note however that all scholarship deadlines are earlier than this.
Most Social Policy students at Edinburgh take a four-year MA Honours degree. Social Policy can be studied in a wide range of joint degrees, including Economics, Geography, Law, Politics, Social and Economic History, Modern European Languages, Social Anthropology and Sociology. Students can also opt for a three year BA Humanities ad Social Sciences. Divinity, European Union Studies and Social Work students can take social policy courses as part of their degree.
All applications for undergraduate admission are handled by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Information on Undergraduate Admissions procedures can be found in the undergraduate Prospectus. Queries about undergraduate applications should be sent to the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, by email at HSSUG@ed.ac.uk or by phone on +44(0)131 6503565. If you would like to know more about the course itself, email the Undergraduate Director richard.parry@ed.ac.uk.
Visit the School of Social and Political Studies Undergraduate Teaching Office for more information.
Read one student's experience of combining a Social Policy degree with an Erasmus year abroad.
And read another student's experience of the final year dissertation in Social Policy.
This page was published on 23 September 2011