SOAS University of London

www.soas.ac.uk

About SOAS University of London

SOAS, University of London is the only Higher Education institution in Europe specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East.

 

SOAS is a remarkable institution. Uniquely combining language scholarship, disciplinary expertise and regional focus, it has the largest concentration in Europe of academic staff concerned with Africa, Asia and the Middle East. On the one hand, this means that SOAS scholars grapple with pressing issues - democracy, development, human rights, identity, legal systems, poverty, religion, social change - confronting two-thirds of humankind while at the same time remaining guardians of specialised knowledge in languages and periods and regions not available anywhere else in the UK. This makes SOAS synonymous with intellectual enquiry and achievement.

It is a global academic base and a crucial resource for London. We live in a world of shrinking borders and of economic and technological simultaneity. Yet it is also a world in which difference and regionalism present themselves acutely.

It is a world that SOAS is distinctively positioned to analyse, understand and explain. Our academic focus on the languages, cultures and societies of Africa, Asia and the Middle East makes us an indispensable interpreter in a complex world..

University Rankings

This Year / Last Year

The Sunday Times

31/12324/131

The Guardian

58/12025/121

The Complete University Guide

46/13138/131

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    SOAS University of London, Thornhague Street, London, WC1H 0XG

    Telephone: 020 7637 2388
    Email: [email protected]
    Website: www.soas.ac.uk

    Stats and Facts *

    Total Postgraduate Students:

    2,850

    Total Undergraduate Students:

    3,220

    Total Non-UK Students:

    2,585

    Total Part Time Students:

    1,205

    Total Full Time Students:

    4,865

    Total Student Population:

    6,070

    * Based on 2016 HESA Figures

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