Short courses and professional development

Our short courses and professional development modules help the world’s top businesses and people update their skills. Award-winning, and designed to fit around the needs of employees

One way we do this is by offering a wide variety of short courses - both online, and face-to-face at our London campus.

As leaders in research and education, we aim to help individuals and organisations improve themselves and the world around them. Courses range from introducing more efficient or environmentally friendly manufacturing processes to how to innovate responsibly. They span subjects and industries as diverse as health, medicine, engineering and technology to business, law, crime and more.

Executive Education and bespoke training

We also offer executive education programmes and highly flexible bespoke training and courses for organisations.

• Find out more about Executive Education at UCL School of Management
• Find out more about Executive Education at UCL STEaPP

Why should you take a UCL short course?

• You’ll be taught by passionate experts who lead the latest thinking and research in their specialist areas
• Our academics work closely with industry so they can combine academic excellence with commercial relevance
• We regularly bring together diverse groups of people to network and develop new perspectives, face-to-face or online, in our multi-disciplinary courses
• We offer a range of short courses and flexible learning formats
• We can offer bespoke courses for your organisation, or deliver some courses in-house

For more information about courses offered within the faculty of Engineering Sciences visit:

• UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering 
• UCL Biochemical Engineering 
• UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
• UCL Security and Crime Sciences

See also our short courses run in partnership with other parts of UCL:

• UCL Responsible Innovation (in partnership with UCL Science and Technology Studies)