About Keele

Keele University, located in the middle of England, is internationally recognised for the quality of its teaching and research. Every year we welcome postgraduate students from the UK and over 100 countries worldwide. Students come here because of our academic reputation, our courses relevant to careers, the excellence of our research and training and our beautiful and spacious campus.

Reasons to Choose Keele

• Keele is England’s largest university campus, with 617 acres of landscaped parkland, fields, woodlands and lakes.
• The main campus is self-contained, with all teaching buildings, the Library, student residences, shops and entertainment all on site. Research and library facilities are also available at the University Hospital site and the Guy Hilton Research Centre.
• Keele is a research-led university. In 2008, the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, 85% of our research was internationally recognised and 11% was rated as world-class.
• Keele offers a range of full-time taught programmes, and a wide variety of research opportunities, with both taught and research components as well as international opportunities.
• There are nearly 1,000 full-time postgraduate students each year, and over 1,500 part-time UK and EU postgraduates.
• The Keele Postgraduate Association (KPA) provides excellent social facilities for postgraduate students and represents their interests to the University.
• Accommodation is available on campus, and is offered to international students provided they apply for this by the stated deadline.
• With international students being invited a few days before the start of semester. Welcome Week provides advice and guidance about starting your studies, as well as supporting you in sorting out finance and other practicalities
• The University provides comprehensive learning support services for all students. For international students, English Language enhancement classes are available throughout their studies and the International Student Support Manager can help with any questions or issues about studying and living in Keele and the UK. It is even possible to add a foreign language to your studies through the Language Learning Unit, which offers six different languages across 10 levels.
• A limited number of Keele International Student Scholarships (KISS) of up to £3,000 for exceptional candidates are available for Masters courses and occasionally research degrees, and for all students who have graduated from Keele with a first degree, a discount of £1,000 is available on some taught postgraduate course tuition fees. For more details on bursaries and scholarships please check the website.

Why Study at Keele?

You will be taught by experts in each subject, with national and international research reputations, so you will benefit from the latest thinking in all subject areas.

When you choose to study a postgraduate course overseas, you are making an investment for your future. You will be looking for a qualification that will enhance your career prospects, and a university that will support you in your studies.

Keele University, which was founded in 1949, offers a high-quality postgraduate education in a safe, friendly and supportive community environment. You will be taught by experts in each subject, with national and international research reputations, so you will benefit from the latest thinking in all subject areas.

Keele’s beautiful, spacious and peaceful campus is the perfect place to concentrate on your studies. Keele has a well-stocked 24 hour library in the middle of the campus, with online resources as well as books and multimedia resources, and all the study bedrooms have data points so you can access the Internet from your room. This makes it very convenient for you to get all the information you need for your course.

Postgraduate study is a challenge for all students, and particularly so if English is not your first language or if you are not used to Western styles of education. We have a Postgraduate Induction Week before the start of the academic year, where you will be given advice on learning styles, academic study, where and how to access information for your course and the support available to you. We offer English Language support alongside your Masters course, so that you can improve your English in a structured way and ensure that these skills develop at the same time as you increase your academic knowledge. Employers overseas tell us that graduates returning from study in the UK or USA have often not developed their English skills to the expected standard; through the Keele course you will definitely make an improvement in your language skills.

Most of the support for your learning will be from your professors and lecturers. If you need advice on an assignment, or you want to do some more reading on a topic, your tutors will be very happy to discuss this with you. And as an international student, with different experiences and perceptions, you will add an important dimension to seminars and discussions.

Keele University offers a range of Masters courses, whichever subject you choose to study, you will benefit from the intellectual development the University offers and the stimulation of learning with like-minded students.

Where is Keele?

Keele University is located right in the middle of England, about 60 miles north of Birmingham and 60 miles south of Manchester. The University is on a very attractive campus site about 3 miles away from the town of Newcastle-under-Lyme, which means that the University buildings are all in one place and it is very easy to walk around the campus.

Keele benefits from a beautiful location but also has easy transport links to local towns and cities and to other parts of the country. This means that Keele students can enjoy visiting larger cities in the UK, without the cost of living there.