New College of the Humanities

[EduCativ]

New College of the Humanities (NCH) is a prestigious, university-level college in London's heart. Small by design, we offer a unique and broad liberal arts-inspired curriculum with highly personalized teaching, including our gold standard one-to-one tutorial system. Our experienced and respected faculty are passionate about teaching and research. NCH offers one of the best staff-to-student ratios in UK higher education. Degrees are taught through small seminars and lectures and our unique one-to-one tutorials, giving our students unrivaled opportunities to explore the curriculum in-depth, at a level of engagement with other students, tutors, and lecturers that is second to none. Our courses are challenging and enriching, and our students are rewarded with additional personal development and enhanced skills.
Our world-class Visiting Professoriate of world-class professors includes luminaries such as Simon Blackburn, Sir Partha Dasgupta, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C Dennett, AC Grayling, Bettany Hughes, Lawrence Krauss, Steven Pinker, Sir Christopher Ricks, and Adrian Zuckerman. All of them teach and contribute to the creation and development of the curriculum at the College. Between them, they deliver approximately 100 lectures in each academic year at NCH, giving our students access to some of the world's greatest thinkers that are unparalleled at the undergraduate level.
Our unique, liberal arts-inspired major/minor degree combinations offer our students a choice of bespoke, individually tailored degree programs. Select one introductory course from Art History, Economics, English, History, Law, Philosophy, or Politics & IR. These subjects are all available for selection as a second, complementary 'minor' subject and a Creative Writing minor. A single honors Law LLB, Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) and Philosophy, Politics & History (PPH) are also available.
All undergraduate students at NCH combine their degree studies with the College's enriching Diploma. The NCH Diploma further contextualizes your degree by studying Applied Ethics, Critical Reasoning, Science Literacy, and the NCH LAUNCH program. The Diploma equips you with an intelligent understanding of the core concepts, arguments, and theories that underpin the study of the humanities and enables you to approach your degree studies in a rounded and enlightened way. The LAUNCH program introduces critical professional skills, attitudes, and behaviors identified by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) to be valuable to employers across various professions.
NCH has earned a reputation as a world-class academic institution leading the way in UK higher education. Our students are some of the worworld'sst enquiring minds and have a passion for learning. Studying at NCH is an enriching pursuit, both personally and professionally, and we consider postgraduate students to play an integral role in the ongoing development of our vibrant collegiate community.
Our MA programs foster advanced critical questioning skills, information gathering, synthesis and analysis, and oral and written communication. Graduates are likely to pursue a research degree and an academic career or broader employment opportunities in diverse industries.
Our Grade I-listed home in beautiful Bedford Square is set in the heart of London, surrounded by the world-renowned library collections, museums, academic bodies, and art institutions of the worworld'seatest city. Oxford Street, Covent Garden, and the West End theatres are all within a few minute's walk. Our students have the best of both worlds. Our small, nurturing, collegiate institution, where everyone knows your name, provides students with a supportive foundation from which to launch themselves into London and seize the opportunity to participate in a community of 120,000 students through Student Central, the University of London student social hub.
Our students are talented, ambitious, and passionate about the humanities. NCH is a truly international and cosmopolitan community of students. Around 40% of our students come from outside the UK, representing more than 40 countries. We welcome applications from students irrespective of their background. We offer means-tested bursaries of up to £3,085 to home students and generous merit-based scholarships worth up to £2,000 to high caliber candidates.
NCH offers an intensive learning experience and immense opportunities for individual growth. Students who study at the College develop into assured, well-rounded, eloquent individuals with a capacity for independent critical thought and intellectual debate, impressive research skills, a range of interests and passions, and an understanding of how to apply their studies the world at large.
The caliber and diversity of destinations of the ColCollege'srly graduates demonstrate the academic and real-world value of the ColCollege'sading-edge approach to broader, deeper, more vigorous higher education. Destinations include Clifford Chance, Lambert Smith Hampton, Belarus Free Theatre, Deloitte, Porsche, Diageo, and the British Council. Others progressed to postgraduate study at top universities, including the University of Oxford, UCL, and LSE.

View full university