• Bachelor of Arts in Education at the University of Cambridge is offered on a full-time basis for a duration of 4 years.
  • It is an on-campus and honours program.
  • Education is a rewarding interdisciplinary degree that allows students to combine the study of educational and social issues with one of three specialist areas:
    • psychology of learning
    • international development or English
    • drama and the arts
  • The Faculty of Education has excellent resources and facilities within a purpose-built building, designed to support teaching, learning, and research.
  • Students get the psychology laboratory and library facilities that houses an extensive collection of material on education and related fields.
  • In year 1, students take 4 papers, including 2 compulsory Education papers which have a strong interdisciplinary emphasis on the papers.
  • In Year 2, students take 5 papers. Two are compulsory are Designing Educational Research and The Emergence of Educational Thinking and Systems.
  • Students have to attend approximately 4 to 6 lectures and seminars, and one or two hours of supervision per week.
  • Students are assessed at the end of each year depending on the papers studied, this will be through coursework, written examination, or a combination of both.
  • In year 3, students have to submit a dissertation of 8,000-10,000 words and 5 papers and two papers on particular issues in Education.
  • The Faculty is one of the largest groups of educational researchers and teacher educators in the UK.
  • The career options for graduates are extremely varied and include a wide range of occupations in the UK and abroad.
  • As well as further study and teaching, our students have gone into research, educational psychology and neuroscience, publishing, and the Civil Service.