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Taught Postgraduate

A lively international student community: 2009-10 MA students and their tutors.

You might be thinking of studying on our MA programmes for various reasons, including:

  • to gain a qualification to pursue a relevant career
  • to strengthen your academic knowledge and skills in related areas where you already have work experience
  • to build on your first degree by specialising in an area that has become increasingly important to you
  • to obtain a qualification that deepens your understanding of a subject in which you have a great personal interest

We offer a wide range of taught postgraduate degrees, most of which provide the opportunity to study an East Asian language - Chinese, Japanese or Thai. Click on the links below to obtain more details about each of the programmes we offer.




Chinese Studies


Japanese Studies


Thai and South East Asia (and Asia-Pacific Studies)


Mongolian Studies (not on offer in 2012-13)

Whatever your reason for studying a taught postgraduate degree with us, you will benefit from an extensive range of facilities, including an internationally acclaimed university library comprising over 2.7 million items, first-rate computing resources and one of the most active students’ unions in the country.