London Metropolitan University

London Metropolitan University is one of the UK's largest universities with 34,000 students and over 3,000 staff. We offer over 140 postgraduate courses and provide academic excellence with a warm and welcoming atmosphere. A postgraduate qualification from London Met will help you fulfil your potential personally and professionally. Our courses are forward looking and attuned to the latest developments in business, culture, science, technology and research. You can also benefit from the University's central London location with two campuses in the north and City of London.

Reports from the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education have awarded London Met with consistently high marks for teaching in Business and Management, Architecture, Computing and Law.

The University has an exciting and cutting-edge research environment for you to study in. In the most recent (2001) national Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), many of our Departments and Research Institutes at the University attained a grade 3A or above, meaning our research is of national significance and some has aspects of international standing.

There are five libraries and modern learning centres, with over three quarters of a million items available, including books, journals, magazines, CDs and DVDs and state-of-the-art IT studios. The University is committed to developing new facilties, and recent projects have included the Graduate Centre, a suite of facilities dedicated to postgraduate students and a £30million spectacular new Science Centre, featuring a 'superlab' with 280 individual workstations and unique facilities for studying sports therapy, nutritional physiology and food technology, as well as core sciences. The Centre also houses a sports hall including facilities for basketball, 5-a-side football, hockey and badminton as well as a fitness suite. The Graduate School at London Met has been developed to focus on the needs of postgraduate and research students. It strengthens the development of postgraduate programmes, and provides help and assistance in areas such as fees, funding, entry requirements and applications procedures. In addition to supporting your academic studies our Student Services department provide information, support and guidance across a range of areas including visa regulations, finances and funding, career choices and employment opportunities.

Across our Academic Departments and Business School we offer an extensive range of subjects with many courses available on both a full and part-time basis and entry in September or January. Subject areas include: Art and Design, Architecture, Computing, Education, Health and Human Sciences, Humanities, Arts and Languages, Law, Politics and Social Justice, Polymers and Psychology.

LMBS is located in the Centre of London and in the heart of the City - one of the world's major financial centres and home to global banking corporations and trading centres.

In total LMBS boasts 10,000 students and over 100 courses at undergraduate, postgraduate and professional levels in many business sectors. Subject areas include: Business and Management, Economics and Finance, Aviation, Management, Human Resource Management, Travel and Hospitality and many Professional Development courses to suit your needs. We have substantial contracts with City practitioners who provide advice on course provision and contribute to the delivery of the curriculum. Theory, application and practice are combined and we place great emphasis on developing the employability skills of our students who come from a diverse range of backgrounds from the UK, Europe and other major continents.

The postgraduate and professional development programmes benefit from the many facilities the University has to offer including the Bloomberg Research and Trading Room. Here, students and finance delegates alike have the opportunity to apply their learning using market-leading technology. We are proud to be able to offer students the chance to develop a depth of knowledge and relevant skills to address the challenges facing all areas of business in the 21st century.

Our alumni can be found working in most of the major City institutions such as in the Bank of England, Merrill Lynch, Natwest, Schroder, Credit Lyonnais, Daiwa Europe, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, and also further afield.

Opportunities for research are offered in all departments of the University and may lead to the award of the degree of MPhil or PhD. The University currently has around 250 students registered for MPhil or PhD, on either full-time or part-time programmes of study.

Fees for postgraduate courses vary for each course.

Please contact admissions at the University for more details, and to check fees for individual courses or visit our website