Lancaster University International Study Centre

Departments and Faculties at Lancaster

Once you have successfully completed the International Foundation Year at Lancaster you will progress straight to your undergraduate degree course at the University. Depending on the degree you choose, you will be part of a department which in turn is part of one of the main University faculties.

Faculty of Science and Technology

The Faculty of Science and Technology has 9 departments covering the whole range of science and technology. The Faculty interfaces with social science in political geography; includes pure sciences like particle physics; and generates new technologies in computing and engineering. All departments have high research profiles and many of their teaching staff are world leaders in their areas of research.

Our teaching uses many methods to help your development, including field trips where appropriate (sometimes overseas), computer simulation of complex systems as well as more traditional hands-on laboratory work. In the final year all our departments require you to carry out an extensive project in which you will work alongside a member of staff.

The Faculty offers an extensive range of broadly-based and specialised degrees including: Biochemistry, Engineering, Biological Sciences, Environmental Chemistry, Biomedical Sciences, Environmental Science, Chemistry, Geography ,Combined Science/ICT, Combined Technology, Mathematics and Statistics, Computer Science, Natural Sciences, Earth Science, Physics, Ecology, Psychology.

Lancaster University Management School (LUMS)

LUMS is one of the UK's top business schools with world-class expertise in a wide variety of fields. We have been given official 6* status for our research (the highest possible rating) and our undergraduates rated our Business and Management degrees joint first in the UK for overall full-time student satisfaction in the first ever National Student Survey (2005).

We have a distinctive teaching and learning philosophy and believe in "research-led education". This means that our curriculum is totally up-to-date in theory and practice, that our top researchers also teach undergraduates and that we encourage you to think critically.

We offer an extensive range of broadly-based and more specialised degrees including: Accounting and Finance, Business Studies, Economics, European Management (BBA), Management (BBA), Management and Entrepreneurship, Management and Organisation, Management Science, Marketing and Advertising, Operations Management.

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is the largest faculty in the University with 1 departments offering undergraduate degrees. The Faculty has many internationally renowned scholars covering a range of disciplines. The Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts brings together the departments of Art, Music and Theatre Studies and the public arts provision of the Peter Scott Gallery, Nuffield Theatre and Lancaster International Concerts are all based within the Faculty.

Lancaster has been recognised as one of the top 100 universities world-wide in the social sciences and our teaching is of the highest quality, with consistently excellent rankings.

The Faculty offers an extensive range of broadly-based and specialised degrees including: American Studies, Art, Consultancy/Independent Research, Creative Arts, Criminology, English Language, English Literature and Creative Writing, European Studies/European Languages, Film Studies, French, German, History, Italian, Law, Linguistics, Media and Cultural Studies, Music, Philosophy, Politics and International Relations, Psychology in Education, Religious Studies, Social Work, Sociology, Spanish, Theatre Studies.

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