Program Overview

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Anthropology with a Year Abroad BSc

The UCL Anthropology BSc combines evolutionary and environmental anthropology, social anthropology, material culture, and medical anthropology to give students a broad-based anthropology degree. This program equips students with the skills to respond to global challenges such as conflict, poverty, climate change, racial discrimination, and gender bias.

Program Overview

• The program is based in London, Bloomsbury.
• It is a full-time course that lasts for 4 academic years.
• The third year is spent abroad at one of UCL's prestigious partner universities.
• The tuition fees for UK students are Ł9,535, and for international students, they are Ł36,500 for the 2025/26 academic year.

Entry Requirements

A Levels

• Grades: AAB
• Subjects: No specific subjects, but at least two A-level subjects should be taken from UCL's list of preferred A-level subjects.
• GCSEs: English Language and Mathematics at grade C or 4, plus any Science (Single Science, Biology, Chemistry, or Physics) required at grade B or 6 (Combined Science at grades 6, 6).

Contextual Offer

• Grades: BBB
• Subjects: No specific subjects, but at least two A-level subjects should be taken from UCL's list of preferred A-level subjects.
• GCSEs: English Language and Mathematics both at grade C or 4, plus any Science (Single Science, Biology, Chemistry, or Physics) required at grade C or 4 (Combined Science at grades 4, 4).

International Baccalaureate

• Points: 36
• Subjects: A total of 17 points in three higher-level subjects, with no higher-level score below 5.

Contextual Offer for International Baccalaureate

• Points: 32
• Subjects: A total of 15 points in three higher-level subjects, with no higher-level score below 5.

UK Applicants Qualifications

For entry requirements with other UK qualifications accepted by UCL, these include:

• Access to HE Diploma
• BTEC National Diploma
• Cambridge Pre-U Principal Subjects
• Scottish Advanced Highers
• T Levels
• UAL Extended Diploma
• Welsh Baccalaureate

International Applications

Country-specific information can be obtained from the International Students website.

Course Overview

The program explores the evolutionary, environmental, social, and cultural aspects of being human and our relationship with the material world. Students will gain a broad set of skills, including critical reasoning, the ability to search, analyze, and synthesize various materials, collaboration, and communication.

Teaching and Learning

• The teaching comprises lectures, tutorials, seminars, and laboratory classes.
• Small group tutorials and collaborative group work are an important element of many modules.
• The first year includes an all-expenses-paid three-day ethnographic field trip.
• The third year Individual Studies in Anthropology module can involve fieldwork to gather primary data for dissertation research projects.

Assessment

Assessment varies by module and combines written coursework, examinations, presentations, journals, laboratory notebooks, multimedia assignments, quizzes, and a dissertation research project. Examinations are normally unseen.

Fees and Funding

Fees for This Course

• UK students: Ł9,535
• International students: Ł36,500 for the 2025/26 academic year.

Additional Costs

• The optional ANTH0032 Atapuerca and Human Evolution in Europe module includes fieldwork in Burgos, Spain. Students requiring an additional visa to travel to Spain are responsible for covering its costs.
• Studying abroad may incur additional costs, estimated between Ł200Ł1,000 per month, depending on the location.

Employability

UCL Anthropology graduates work in a diverse range of fields, including accountancy, financial services, media, IT, technology, communications, performance, creative arts, publishing, journalism, and teaching. Many also pursue further academic study.

The Foundation of Your Career

The broad range of methodological skills and analytical perspectives offered by the UCL Anthropology program gives graduates an unusually wide range of career possibilities, many directly related to the discipline's cross-cultural focus and the blending of social and biological sciences.