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:
- Lancaster University Management School (LUMS)
- Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Faculty of Science and Technology
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. It has been given official 6* status for research (the highest possible rating) and its undergraduates rated its Business and Management degrees joint first in the UK for overall full-time student satisfaction in the first ever National Student Survey (2005).
LUMS has a distinctive teaching and learning philosophy and believes in 'research-led education'. This means that its curriculum is totally up-to-date in theory and practice, that top researchers also teach undergraduates and that you are encouraged to think critically.
All 4-year degrees listed below include a year’s placement, where you will spend a full year in a real responsible salaried job. You can also take an optional year’s placement as a variant of most LUMS 3-year degrees.
An extensive range of broadly-based and more specialised degrees is offered 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 14 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 the faculty's 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
- Creative Arts
- Criminology
- English Language
- English Literature and Creative Writing
- European Languages: French, German, Italian and Spanish
- European Studies
- Film Studies
- History
- Law
- Linguistics
- Media and Cultural Studies
- Music
- Philosophy
- Politics and International Relations
- Psychology in Education
- Religious Studies
- Social Work
- Sociology
- Theatre Studies
Faculty of Science and Technology
The Faculty of Science and Technology has nine 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 the teaching staff are world leaders in their areas of research.
Many teaching methods are used 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 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
- Biological Sciences
- Biomedical Sciences
- Chemistry
- Combined Science/ICT
- Combined Technology
- Computer Science
- Earth Science
- Ecology
- Engineering
- Environmental Chemistry
- Environmental Science
- Geography
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Natural Sciences
- Physics
- Psychology