BASc Prospective Students
UCL’s Arts and Sciences degrees are unlike any other degree in the UK. They allow you to create a bespoke degree, incorporating both arts and sciences specialisms.
Students choose to major in one of four Pathways: Cultures, Health and Environment, Sciences and Engineering or Societies. If you choose to major in Cultures or Societies, you minor in Health and Environment or Sciences and Engineering – and vice versa. Alongside the Pathways, students study specially designed Core courses created to enhance understanding of how different branches of knowledge interrelate. These Core courses enable you to acquire the skills and concepts you will need to work effectively across multiple disciplines. The Core courses further encourage you to link traditional UCL subjects in new ways, or explore the conceptual and methodological differences between arts and sciences.
As part of the Core, you will also study a foreign language – essential in today’s global society. And, before your final year, you will undertake an internship, giving you the chance to explore future employment options.
On graduation, you will have two academic specialisms, strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to work flexibly, creatively and internationally in a range of fields.
Study Abroad
If you opt for the Arts and Sciences with Study Abroad degree, you will spend your third year at another university in Europe, the United States, Canada, the Far East or Australia.
10 reasons to study the BASc degree
Click on this link below to see the top 10 reasons why we think you should study a BASc Arts and Sciences degree at UCL.
Degrees
- UCAS Y000 - BASc Arts and Sciences (3 years)
- UCAS Y001 - BASc Arts and Sciences with Study Abroad (4 years)
- Study Abroad at UCL (Affiliate/Exchange students)
Links
Watch some of our current and former BAScers talk about their experience of the BASc degree
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Listen to Virgina talk about what brought her to the BASc degree, why she chose to major in Sciences and Engineering and what she likes about the BASc degree.
“The skills and knowledge I have eveloped gave me the confidence, as well as the opportunity, to undertake an fast-paced internship in the centre of London with real responsibility. Outside an educational context you realise the invaluable skills that Arts and Sciences teaches you: proactivity, teamwork, determination, leadership, preservation, motivation, confidence. The internship helps to strengthen these skills and puts you in a position to leave UCL and enter the job market with confidence, an enviable position to be in.” Alex, Cultures major and 2015 graduate.
Read more student testimonials in the ’What our students say about the BASc‘ section.