219 Bachelor's degrees offered by the university

The Law with Human Rights degree offered at University of Essex is a three-year undergraduate qualifying law degree, extendable to four with an optional placement or study abroad year.

Studying Tourism programme offered at University of Essexwill develop your knowledge about tourism products, services, systems and destinations. 

The Sports and Exercise Science course at the University of Essex will give you a new and exciting perspective on the world of sport, exercise, health and physical fitness.

Always seeking political cause and effect, the Politics degree from the University of Essex is a three-year degree, extendable to four with an optional placement or study abroad year.

The English Literature (Including Foundation Year) programme from University of Essex will revolutionise the way you think about literature. We'll challenge you to reflect on how literature shapes, and is shaped by, the world. Drawing on key texts and ideas, you'll develop critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills that will help you make your own mark.

The Sports and Exercise Science (Including Foundation Year) programme at University of Essex is a four-year degree, extendable to five with an optional year in placement or abroad.

Philosophy, Politics and Economics degree from University of Essex is a three-year degree, or four years with an optional placement or study abroad year.

On the Sociology programme from University of Essex you explore why individuals, groups, and cultures are the way they are, and examine why they might be different.

The Journalism and Criminology course from University of Essex will enable you to study contemporary society and crime, alongside building your journalistic skills, to analyse and share information and understand it through a social perspective.

The Drama and Literature programme from University of Essex will help you develop an understanding of the principal developments in European Theatre.

The Financial Economics course offered by University of Essex is built on the core principles of economics, which are applied to your study of financial institutions (such as banks), financial markets (such as the stock exchange), and financial instruments.

How can we use gene-editing technology to understand and treat human disease or improve crop yield? What is big data and how can we use it to advance our understanding of biological systems? How are we using synthetic biology to engineer bacteria to clean up oil pollution? Answer these questions with the Biological Sciences degree delivered by University of Essex.

During Year Zero on the Linguistics (Including Foundation Year) degree from University of Essex you will study on our Social Sciences Pathway which will cover topics such as Analysing the Social and Political World, and People and Society. At the end of Year Zero all students who pass the Social Sciences Pathway will have a choice of which course to progress with.

The Art History and History course from University of Essex promotes awareness of the interactions and differences between history and the visual arts in history and investigates the ways in which the two disciplines can be integrated. ‘Histories' are a challenge and we encourage you to look beyond superficial ideas which offer works of art as merely a way of documenting a kind of ‘truth'.

The four-year Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies (Including Foundation Year) degree from University of Essex will cover topics such as Analysing the Social and Political World, and People and Society. At the end of Year Zero all students who pass the Social Sciences Pathway will have a choice of which course to progress with.

The Philosophy degree offered by University of Essex will feed your intellectual curiosity and challenge your thinking. You’ll acquire the skills required to dig deeper into ideas and question received wisdom.

 MSci Tropical Marine Biology course from the University of Essex is a three-year degree, extendable to four with an optional year in placement or abroad.

On the Drama and Creative Writing degree offered by University of Essex you will have the opportunity to study many aspects of theatre from classic to contemporary texts, and to explore themes in drama such as gender, identity, tragedy, human rights, immersive theatre, devising and playwriting.

Switch on the news any day of the week, or pick up just about any national newspaper, and you will be sure to come across an item on Europe. It is clear that the future of Europe is a geo-political question of profound importance for the future of the world we live in. Learn more at the European Studies with Italian programme from University of Essex.

The Therapeutic Communication and Therapeutic Organisations course offered by the University of Essex will help you develop a thorough understanding of the human processes within and around the people who use your service and the people who are trying to help them. We also equip you with an awareness of the wider dimension of organisational dynamics.