University of Kent

The University of Kent is a public research university based in Canterbury, England. It admitted its first students in 1965 and uses named colleges, including Darwin, Eliot, Keynes, Turing, and Woolf, for residence and student community while remaining a single university. It also teaches at Medway and has run specialist postgraduate centers in Brussels and Paris for international studies and law.

Academic work is organized through the divisions of Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences, together with Kent Law School, Kent Business School, and the Brussels School of International Studies. The School of Anthropology and Conservation and the School of Psychology are established homes for research students. Physics, computing, and biosciences sit in the sciences division. Law, politics, and international relations are the fields most often associated with Kent at graduate level.

The university enrolls about 20,000 students, with international students making up more than a quarter of the body and coming from more than 150 countries. Faculty number in the low thousands when part-time and research staff are included. Alumni include novelist Sarah Waters and comedian Alan Davies.

Master's degrees (MA, MSc, LLM, MBA) and research degrees (MPhil, PhD) are the graduate awards. Supervision follows the British thesis model, with taught components on many master's courses. The academic year is organized in terms. Doctoral funding commonly takes the form of graduate teaching assistantships and competitive scholarships. The Canterbury campus sits on a hill above the cathedral city; graduate students use the town and London rail links from Canterbury.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Kent lists 7 graduate programs across 6 subjects: 4 master's programs and 3 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in economics, business & management and data science & business analytics.