SOAS University of London offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, diplomas, PhDs, and certificate programs in subjects related to Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Here is a list of some of the courses and fees:
The BA Economics degree will provide you with training in microeconomics, macroeconomics and quantitative methods that will enable you to pursue a successful career in an economics-related profession or to go on to postgraduate work.
DURATION
3 Years
FEES
£20,350
EXAMS
On the BA Creative Arts and Cultural Industries, you will study Asia, Africa and their diasporas through a range of disciplines, from History of Art and Archaeology to Music, Curating, Film and Media. The only programme of its kind in the UK, the degree offers historical, theoretical and practical training by world-leading experts, and supported by close connections with industry partners.
DURATION
3 Years
FEES
£21,160
EXAMS
This exciting programme examines key topics in international development, while analysing the roles and impact of a wide variety of regional and international actors. By the time you graduate, you will have cultivated a deep knowledge of the causes of and responses to poverty, marginalisation and vulnerability in developing countries and the process of dramatic social, economic and political change.
DURATION
3 Years
FEES
£21,160
EXAMS
The programme provides sound foundations of history as a discipline by introducing central approaches and theories in historical analysis. This knowledge is embedded in a global perspective, rather than a Eurocentric one.
DURATION
3 Years
FEES
£21,160
EXAMS
The History of Art and Archaeology department has world leading experts in Asian and African art history and archaeology, whose ground-breaking research informs and is informed by their teaching.
DURATION
3 Years
FEES
£21,160
EXAMS
The BA International Relations provides you with an excellent grounding in the complex cultural issues of global politics. Exploring the political issues of Africa, Asia and the Middle East on a level no other university can, you will learn about mainstream approaches to the study of world politics, as well as critiques.
DURATION
3 Years
FEES
£21,160
EXAMS
The SOAS Law degree equips its students for international and transnational work, whether in legal practice or in other areas of law, and aims to encourage a generation of highly skilled, civic minded and critically engaged law graduates.
DURATION
3 Years
FEES
£21,160
EXAMS
You will be introduced to the core subjects of political theory, comparative politics, political economy, and international relations, which are then applied to the analysis of real world political situations. Through a mix of disciplinary and regional training, you will develop a critical understanding of contemporary geopolitics, transnational social movements, as well as political developments and governance structures in particular countries.
DURATION
3 Years
FEES
£21,160
EXAMS
You will study the great variety of beliefs and practices that exist around the world, from remote communities to global cities. You will learn theoretical frameworks and question your own assumptions, helping you to think creatively about how to address global problems.
DURATION
3 Years
FEES
£21,160
EXAMS
Philosophy has been a significant activity in every society for several thousand years. It is a basic aspect of all human cultures to ask “big questions” about the fundamental nature of reality, about what it is to be human, what constitutes a good life, the nature of beauty, justice, knowledge and truth, and how to confront and resolve ethical dilemmas.
DURATION
3 Years
FEES
£21,160
EXAMS
This BSc Accounting and Finance programme is ideal for students whose ambition is to pursue a career in accounting, finance, investments, auditing, taxation, and other finance-related strategic roles in business.
DURATION
3 Years
FEES
£21,160
EXAMS
The Department of Economics is one of the country's leading departments specialising in the economics of growth and development as well as in political economy and heterodox approaches to Economics. Research and teaching are pursued on a variety of topics and are unique in their depth and range of regional and specialising coverage, including topics from contemporary banking and finance, the economics of the environment, gender economics, global economic policy, as well as the economic development of a variety of regions from Japan to the Middle East.
DURATION
3 Years
FEES
£21,160
EXAMS
Our BSc Management programme will provide you with a strong grounding in business and management, as well as the skills needed to be an effective manager in a changing world.
DURATION
3 Years
FEES
£21,160
EXAMS
The BSc Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) degree offers the opportunity to study three disciplines crucial for understanding, analysing and shaping the contemporary world: Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
DURATION
3 Years
FEES
£21,160
EXAMS
The SOAS Law degree programme produces highly skilled, civic minded and critically engaged graduates, who can effectively contribute to their communities and societies through the knowledge and skills gained on this course.
DURATION
3 Years
FEES
£21,160
EXAMS
Our LLM (Master of Laws) programme gives you the opportunity to study at our vibrant School of Law with its unique focus on the legal systems and legal challenges of the Global South generally and Asia, Africa and the Middle East in particular.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,750
EXAMS
The LLM in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development provides a unique specialisation in a rapidly evolving area of law that covers a range of issues at the heart of major contemporary developments and debates.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,750
EXAMS
The SOAS LLM in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice provides a specialisation in a constantly evolving area of law that covers a range of issues at the heart of major contemporary developments and debates.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,750
EXAMS
The SOAS LLM in International Law provides a diverse and unique range of courses that interrogate critically the theory and practice of international law and explore cutting edge topics of contemporary significance particularly as they relate to the global south.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,750
EXAMS
The SOAS LLM in Law and Gender offers an interdisciplinary, intellectually and politically rewarding and collegiate space, designed for critical and impactful engagements with law and gender, with a particular focus on the Global South and both historical and contemporary legal and alegal pursuits of gender, sexual, racial, Indigenous, class, caste, disability, post-conflict, post-colonial and environmental justice.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,750
EXAMS
The MA Anthropology of Food programme offers you the opportunity to explore historically and culturally variable foodways, from foraging to industrial food, from Asia, Africa and the Middle East to Europe and the Americas.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,750
EXAMS
Today our planet faces deepening socio-economic inequalities, global health crises, planetary degradation, and the unfathomable possibility of species extinction. The scale of these challenges raises critical questions about how we live our lives and how we might envision and create a radically different future. The stakes of our choices and actions could not be higher.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
The programme follows a non-confessional, contextual approach, which highlights the diversity of Buddhism in its historical and geographical developments and appreciates it as a living religion. Attention is given to how scholarship, both in the West and in Asia, has shaped our understanding of Buddhism. The programme benefits from teaching on Buddhist languages and regional cultures across the School.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
Go beyond Euro-American literary canons and redefine ‘the classics’. The MA Comparative Literature is an opportunity to study literature from the regions of Africa and Asia. Covering universal themes but in a unique, multi-cultural domain, you will explore a wide range of literature and its place in culture and society.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
The MA Cultural Studies programme aims to offer grounding in the theories on Cultural Studies which draws on Marxism, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Post-Marxism, Feminism, and Post-Modernism and their use, application and adaption in the cross-cultural contexts of Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
The MA in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development provides a unique specialisation in a rapidly evolving area of law that covers a range of issues at the heart of major contemporary developments and debates.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,750
EXAMS
With a focus on the study of Gender that attends to the complex specificities of Asia, Africa, the Middle East and their diasporas, this programme creates a cutting edge pedagogical space where students grapple with the limits of ‘Western’ and elite feminisms and tackle the problems of class violence, racism, transmisogny, Islamophobia, ableism and queerphobia in contemporary feminist political projects.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,750
EXAMS
The MA Gender Studies and Law at SOAS is a unique programme, its principal aim being to re-focus issues prioritised in western Gender Studies and Legal Theory on the complex specificities of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
The MA Global Media and Digital Communications is unique in that it offers a critical appraisal and critique of Western Media and Communication theories and approaches through focusing on the complex specificities of Asia, Africa and the Middle East and their diasporas.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
SOAS’s MA History programme is one of the few Master-level programmes in History in the UK which focuses study of the discipline through Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
Combining theoretical engagement with questions like the value of culture, the commodification of art and sustainability, diversity and precariarity in the cultural economy, with a focus on learning through making, that will enable students to undertake successful careers within the cultural economy.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
Your extensive choice of modules will allow you to shape the degree around the areas that interest you most – you can either focus on a region or experience a broad range of themes. Students explore a wide range of arts and material culture, from Islamic art to African diasporic art, contemporary Korean ceramics and South East Asian Buddhist monuments, exploring their specificity and the links between them, in historical and contemporary periods. Modules include field-trips, museum and storage visits, talks by curators, artists and other practitioners.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
SOAS’s MA History programme is one of the few Master-level programmes in History in the UK which focuses study of the discipline through Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
The MA History and Intensive Language programme would suit students with a keen interest in learning about the historical conditions of the contemporary world, and in particular those who are prepared to look at the world from the perspective of other people and cultures.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
The MA History of Art and Archaeology of East Asia programme is an unrivalled opportunity to study the arts of China, Korea and Japan.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
The MA in Human Rights Law provides a specialisation in a constantly evolving area of law that covers a range of issues at the heart of major contemporary developments and debates.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,750
EXAMS
The SOAS MA in International Law provides a diverse and unique range of courses that interrogate critically the theory and practice of international law and explore cutting edge topics of contemporary significance, particularly as they relate to the global south: refugee law and the migrant crisis; climate change and natural resources; the rights of women; gender and armed conflict; international criminal law; the law of armed conflict; multinational enterprises and human rights; sustainable development; and conflict resolution, peace-building and transitional justice.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£25,635
EXAMS
The MA International Studies and Diplomacy (ISD) programme is designed for those engaged in, or planning to embark upon, a professional career requiring international expertise in government, not-for-profit, corporate or academic environments.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£25,635
EXAMS
Our MA in Legal Studies programme gives students the opportunity to study at our vibrant School of Law with its unique focus on the legal systems and legal challenges of the Global South generally and Asia, Africa and the Middle East in particular.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£25,635
EXAMS
MA Linguistics at SOAS is a modular programme which combines the intensive study of the core areas of formal linguistics - phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics - with a choice of options in different areas of the discipline.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
This MA Media in Development programme challenges the assumptions behind the media and development industries and development studies and offers new ways of thinking about the critical issues facing societies today such as climate change.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
The MA Medical Anthropology and Mental Health is a unique interdisciplinary programme designed to address pressing global challenges in health and mental health from diverse perspectives.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
The MA in Middle Eastern Studies provides exceptional opportunities for studying this diverse and fascinating area at the postgraduate level through a variety of disciplinary approaches.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
The MA Music programme provides theoretical and practical grounding in the discipline of ethnomusicology, as well as the opportunity to develop performance and ethnographic skills.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
Religion has become a force to be reckoned with in the contemporary global geopolitical landscape and as such demands a reassessment of once predominant understandings of processes of secularisation, as well as the meanings of, and tensions inherent within, secular assumptions and secularist positions.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
Are you interested in how different people around the world do things differently? Have you ever questioned the taken for granted assumptions about what is “normal” behaviour in your culture, your workplace, or in powerful institutions? Have you got an interest in culture, behaviour, cultural heritage, or social justice? If so, then anthropology is the subject for you.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
The MA Translation programme combines training of practical translation skills and/or cultural mediation with teaching of translation theories and methods. It is unique in terms of the range of Asian and African language and cultural specialisations.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
MSc Accounting and Finance is for graduates with first degrees in accounting, finance, management, economics and other social science disciplines, including sociology and political science. Graduates with science and mathematical background are also welcome to apply.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,750
EXAMS
It combines the two core intellectual traditions nurtured for decades in our unique Department: a pluralist approach to economics and a focus on real-world development issues. If you are interested in understanding how the global economy works, what economic challenges and opportunities countries in the Global South face, and what to do about intensifying inequalities and ecological breakdown, the MSc Development Economics is for you.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,750
EXAMS
The MSc Development Studies programme provides a solid interdisciplinary social science formation in development theory and practice and develops students’ capacities for independent and critical analysis.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
The MSc Economic Policy programme offers training in the understanding and critical evaluation of economic policy issues, design and solutions, their foundation in the evolution of economic theory and methods, as well as critical discussion of the application of policy design to real-world problems without requiring a first degree in Economics for enrolment.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,750
EXAMS
The MSc Economics provides a unique training in mainstream and heterodox economic approaches that equips you with the tools that are necessary for analysing the global challenges facing our economies.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,750
EXAMS
The MSc in Economics and Environment programme combines environmental concerns with development economics and political economy.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,750
EXAMS
The MSc Environment, Politics and Development programme addresses these pressing questions through a combination of critical political ecology and interdisciplinary approaches. The programme is taught by leading political ecologists who have research and practitioner experience at various scales and locations across the Global South.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,750
EXAMS
The MA Translation programme combines training of practical translation skills and/or cultural mediation with teaching of translation theories and methods. It is unique in terms of the range of Asian and African language and cultural specialisations.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
The MSc Environment, Politics and Development programme addresses these pressing questions through a combination of critical political ecology and interdisciplinary approaches. The programme is taught by leading political ecologists who have research and practitioner experience at various scales and locations across the Global South.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
The MSc International Politics explores key issues and debates in world politics from a variety of perspectives.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
The MSc Political Thought builds on SOAS’s wealth of regional expertise to offer a new approach to the study of political theory which it sees as tightly linked to practises of global domination and resistance.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
The MSc Financial Management provides you with the opportunity to study in the heart of London, close to one of the world’s premier financial centres with highly dynamic firms operating in Banking, Insurance, FinTech, and the financial services ecosystem.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,750
EXAMS
The programme provides students with the platform from which to understand corporate strategy and actions to address societal grand challenges in global markets, and to build up individual cultural intelligence in delivering effective communication, negotiation and work in a multicultural business environment. The programme also aims to help students establish or consolidate their career path in global firms, start-ups reaching out to international markets, or working for policy makers in international trade and investment.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,750
EXAMS
The MSc International Finance and Development students take five core modules in Macroeconomics, Financial Systems and Economic Development, International Finance, Econometrics, and Advanced Econometrics.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,750
EXAMS
The MA Global Media and Digital Communications is unique in that it offers a critical appraisal and critique of Western Media and Communication theories and approaches through focusing on the complex specificities of Asia, Africa and the Middle East and their diasporas.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
This MA Media in Development programme challenges the assumptions behind the media and development industries and development studies and offers new ways of thinking about the critical issues facing societies today such as climate change.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
The MA Traditions of Yoga and Meditation degree explores the origins and historical development of yoga and meditation in India and Tibet from ancient times to the modern world.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£24,350
EXAMS
The MSc Global Energy and Climate Policy addresses precisely these issues, treating climate and energy policy as inextricably linked. Cases drawn from both the Global North and South will form the basis of your studies as you examine how policy is made, advocated and implemented – or sometimes prevented – around the world. You will acquire theoretical knowledge of climate and energy policies as well as practical skills in risk analysis, policy analysis and strategic advocacy.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£25,635
EXAMS
The MA International Studies and Diplomacy (ISD) programme is designed for those engaged in, or planning to embark upon, a professional career requiring international expertise in government, not-for-profit, corporate or academic environments.
DURATION
1 year
FEES
£25,635
EXAMS
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