School of Arts

Overview

The School of Arts is a world-leading centre for study and research involving visual and material arts, music and sound studies, curating, media industries and digital cultures of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and their global diasporas.

Our unique concentration of experts, unsurpassed in scale and reach by any other institution worldwide, welcome you to our Department of the History of Art & Archaeology (HAA), our Department of Music and our Centre for Creative Industries, Media and Screen Studies.

Our Head of School says...

The School of Arts is a forum for innovative interdisciplinary research and teaching and also a vibrant and diverse community of researchers and students.

With our degree programmes across the creative arts at the core, we are one of only a few global centres specialising in the historical and contemporary arts of Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Dr Charlotte Horlyck

Visual and material culture of the Korean peninsula; Pre-modern Korean burial practices, particularly of the Koryŏ period (AD918-1392); Arts of the Koryŏ period, especially bronze mirrors and ceramics; 20th century collecting of Korean artefacts; Heritage and museum practices; Gender and material culture.

Facts and figures

13th in the UK

QS World University Rankings 2022

World Top 50 in Arts and Humanities

QS World University Rankings 2021

Why choose SOAS for The Arts?

Academic staff and research

Research at the School of Arts

The outstanding quality of the School of Arts’ research was recognised in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, with more than 80% of research outputs judged world-leading or internationally excellent.