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SOAS New Programme Scholarships

Fee waivers of £10,000 for international students applying to selected masters programmes.

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Why choose SOAS?

5 subjects in global top 40

Development (2nd), Politics (16th), Anthropology (19th), History of Art (24th), History (36th) – QS World University Rankings 2026

2nd in the UK for International Faculty

QS World University Rankings 2025

13 subjects in global top 100

Including English Language and Literature, Sociology, and Modern Languages – QS World University Rankings 2026

Open Days

Get a taste of life at SOAS at our upcoming Open Days: Applicant Day (18 Apr), Postgraduate Open House (27 May) and Undergraduate Open Day (6 Jun).

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Life at SOAS

Student webinar series

Led by academics and students, our student webinar series offers honest insight into postgraduate study, programme structures, and life at SOAS.

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College of Humanities, College of Social Sciences & Department of Gender Studies

“You make me do too much labour”: What Paris Paloma’s anthem reveals about care, capitalism and gender

Paris Paloma’s viral hit Labour is more than a feminist anthem. Dr Sophie Chamas explores how it reveals a window onto the hidden, gendered and racialised work of care that capitalism depends on but refuses to name or pay.

Department of Development Studies

Scholar Dawn Kene‑Okafor’s mission: building safer migration pathways for women and children

Commonwealth Shared Scholar Dawn Kene‑Okafor, currently pursuing an MSc in Migration, Mobility and Development, shares how the scholarship is supporting her journey to becoming an intersectional migration expert.

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College of Humanities, School of Arts & Department of History of Art and Archaeology

Learning by doing: My art internship archiving Chu Teh-Chun’s legacy

An MA in History of Art and Archaeology student shares their internship experience and how it helped them translate theoretical knowledge into practical application and provided archival experience for their career.

College of Humanities, College of Law & College of Social Sciences

Why I rejected Oxford for SOAS

Amr shares how he found his way to SOAS by choosing a path that felt true to him, rather than the one he was expected to follow.

College of Humanities

The para-athlete inspired by anime: Ali’s journey to MA Japanese Studies at SOAS

Alumnus and para-athlete Ali Golchin reflects on his experience bridging sport science with an MA in Japanese Studies, all while training for and competing on the world stage in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

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