8210-0617 University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK T: +44 (0)1483 681 681 F: +44 (0)1483 300 803 E: [email protected] surrey.ac.uk GUIDE TO POSTGRADUATE STUDY 2018 Connect and explore The information in this brochure is intended as an indicative guide to the educational and other services provided by the University. The University endeavours to ensure that the information provided is accurate and up-to-date at the time of going to press (October 2017). However, it may be necessary for the University to make changes to some of the information presented in it. To make an informed decision about whether you wish to study at the University, we advise you to consult the University’s website: surrey.ac.uk for up-to-date information. Greetings from the University of Surrey – one of the top 10 universities in the UK with a rising global reputation. Thank you for considering Surrey as the next destination on your journey to an exciting new chapter in your life. A life-changing experience A masters from Surrey will unlock your potential to achieve your academic and career ambitions. It will equip you with the knowledge, skills and confidence for professional and personal success, making a positive change to the world. Located in historic and beautiful Guildford, and close to London, our campus offers a safe, friendly and vibrant environment with excellent facilities for postgraduate study. There is an exciting range of postgraduate options, accredited by industry. As the world faces ever more complex challenges, postgraduate study at Surrey enables you to gain skills to provide solutions. You will be part of a diverse and creative international community sharing ideas and learning from each other, empowered to shape the future for a better world. To help you settle in, we run a comprehensive induction week. For new international (non-EU) students, we have an International Orientation Programme a few days earlier. Whichever path you take after graduation, your education at Surrey promises to transform your life. Professor G Q Max Lu President and Vice-Chancellor A life changing experience 1 Embarking on a masters programme will spark an Contents exciting new chapter in your life. Postgraduate study at Surrey 3 4 8 14 Postgraduate Making an Student stories Inspiring study at Surrey impact academics The decision to undertake postgraduate To help you settle in we run a study is often very personal; it can be a comprehensive induction week. New pursuit of passion, for targeted career international students (non-EU) are invited progression or even with a view to be part to arrive a few days early in order to attend of changing the world for the better. Surrey the International Orientation Programme. is perfectly suited to unlock your potential From the two-year Euromasters to part- and will help you achieve your academic time degrees, and creative writing to and career ambitions. microbiology, we offer an exciting and 18 22 24 28 Whether you’re jumping straight in flexible range of postgraduate programmes, A truly following undergraduate studies, looking to many of which are accredited by industry. Campus Smarter study international A space of your combine a part-time programme with your life community own Whatever programme you choose, our job, or keen to get back into studying your dedicated academic staff will inspire you to personal interest, we can support your path. discover new ways of thinking about your Funding is available for more people than subject. Our academics and research teams ever with the option of the Government’s are changing the world and making an new postgraduate loan which is available for impact globally, and you will be part of that up to £10,000. To find out if you’re eligible journey here at Surrey. and for more information please visit: Towards the end of your programme, our 32 36 40 42 surrey.ac.uk/pg-studentloan careers service will be on-hand to guide you Guildford and Health and fitness Our postgraduate Fees and financial More advice about fees and financial through postgraduate job opportunities. beyond programmes support support can be found on pages 42-43. Alternatively, the option remains available to continue your studies even further by You can find out more about the campus considering postgraduate research. on pages 18–23, and our location in Guildford on pages 32–34. The compact Whatever your path after graduation, your campus and excellent facilities are ideal time at Surrey will transform your life. for postgraduate study. 44 48 50 52 English language Your application Our campus Stay in touch requirements 2 surrey.ac.uk Postgraduate study at Surrey 3 As a postgraduate student at Surrey, you’ll be part of a successful community that’s making a profound and lasting impact on the world. Our enterprising, research-rich culture and significant economic influence mean our work is both diverse and far-reaching - transforming regional businesses, the UK economy and global markets, as well as enhancing society, wellbeing and the environment. Making an impact NEW INNOVATION FOR NUMBER ONE BUSINESS HEALTH LABORATORY INCUBATOR IN EUROPE With an increasingly ageing population, the need The University has been incubating technology for a more integrated approach to healthcare businesses since 2002 when, along with Bath, Bristol is paramount. Our £12m Innovation for Health and Southampton Universities, we founded the Learning Laboratory addresses the challenges of SETsquared Partnership with the aim of incubating tomorrow and trains highly-skilled graduates to new businesses. develop the technologies that will shape the future Ranked as the number one global business of healthcare. incubator, SETsquared has directly supported more The laboratory is delivering the University’s than 1,000 companies, helping them to raise over Innovation for Health initiative which focuses our £1 billion. In July 2016, SETsquared won the Times research on supporting the transformation of Higher Education Leadership and Management the healthcare system and on improving patient award (THELMA) for Knowledge Exchange/Transfer outcomes, including eHealth initiatives and Initiative of the Year for its highly successful wearable technologies. Innovation-to-Commercialisation of University Research (ICURe) programme. 4 surrey.ac.uk Making an impact 5 5G INNOVATION OVER 100 COMPANIES SURREY SATELLITE ENVIRONMENTAL WORLD LEADERS CENTRE AT SURREY RESEARCH PARK TECHNOLOGY LTD AND POLICY IMPACT IN HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM The £70 million 5GIC brings together leading The University owns and runs the Surrey Located on the Surrey Research The recently launched Centre Building on the School of academic experts and key industry partners Research Park, a 70-acre facility hosting over Park, Surrey Satellite Technology for Sustainable Prosperity Hospitality and Tourism’s research including Telefonica, Vodafone and regional 100 companies – some of which are our own Ltd (SSTL) has grown from a small (CUSP) builds on the University’s expertise in sustainable tourism, SMEs to form the largest UK research centre spin-out companies where Surrey’s inspiring University spin-out company heritage in industrial ecology Professor Graham Miller and dedicated to the development of next generation research is turned into profitable business to become the world’s premier and sustainable development, colleagues have developed a mobile and wireless communications. With a propositions. The University as a whole provider of operational and an area pioneered by renowned European Tourism Indicators state-of-the-art test-bed, the Centre is working contributed £1.7bn Gross Value Added (GVA) commercial satellite programmes. environmentalist Roland Clift System (ETIS) for the European towards a fast and flexible infrastructure, in 2014–15, a significant proportion of which who established Surrey’s Centre Commission. Founded in 1985 to enable which will underpin the way we will be able to is through the Surrey Research Park and its for Environmental Strategy (CES) the building of two small ETIS, which allows tourist communicate, work and live in the future. business incubator. in 1992. experimental microsatellites, destinations to identify, monitor SSTL has since launched 47 CUSP is an interdisciplinary and manage their tourism small satellites and now employs centre, bringing together industry in a more sustainable 500 staff. Acquired by Airbus scholars from environmental way, has already been Defence and Space in 2009, SSTL psychology, sociology and implemented voluntarily and continues to work closely with political economy to explore the successfully by over 100 regions the University’s Surrey Space complex relationship between across Europe and beyond. Centre to deliver innovative the prosperity of human Professors Miller and Font are technologies in areas such beings and the ecological and now undertaking a follow-up as disaster monitoring, earth resource constraints of a finite evaluation of the impact of ETIS observation and space debris. planet. Working closely with on the work of tourist destination international collaborators and management organisations non-academic partners, the in measuring, assessing and Centre aims to engage business, implementing more sustainable government and civil society tourism practices that will to achieve a global sustainable enhance the benefits of tourism prosperity. for tourists, residents and the tourist industry. 6 surrey.ac.uk Making an impact 7 Student stories I decided to come to Surrey partly because of its high ranking in the league tables and its location in Guildford, with easy access to London. In terms of the MSc Information Systems programme, I liked the fact that it integrates both practical and theoretical study which prepares you for industry – unlike universities in India, which focus on the theory. As a keen programmer I have particularly enjoyed the programming and security modules and look forward to the database systems and cloud computing modules. As part of my research before coming here I also looked at the profiles of academics in the Department of Computer Science, including their research interests, and I was impressed with the people who would be teaching me.