Social Sciences is the largest and one of the most diverse faculties at The University of Nottingham, serving more than twelve thousand undergraduate, postgraduate and research students. The Faculty spans eight schools and over 40 important research institutes and centres. The Faculty is spread across four separate major campuses; University Park and Jubilee campus in the UK and our international campuses at Ningbo China and Malaysia.

We provide a wide and impressive variety of undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes and research opportunities spanning the full breadth of our schools and institutes. We have outstanding links with business and industry and our graduates are highly sought after by leading UK and international employers. Nottingham was ranked 6th in an annual review of universities targeted by the largest number of top employers in 2010-2011 (PDF, 1.42Mb).

The Faculty is at the forefront of world-changing research work and in the latest independent Research Assessment Excercise (RAE2008), over 70% of our research activity was graded as world-leading, internationally excellent or of international recognition.