The MSc in Higher Education (Queen's University Belfast)

The MSc in Higher Education is designed to proactively address the diverse challenges facing higher education, for its long-term prosperity. This comprehensive interdisciplinary curriculum recognises that the roles played by higher education in society, and by individuals within higher education institutions, are best served by engaging with education as the key to transformation, access, and quality of higher education in this digital age.

Queen's University Belfast welcomes students from the Ukraine and from all over the world.  We have 17,000 students from over 80 countries, 3,500 staff and 100,000 graduates worldwide. We're one of the UK's leading universities with a heritage dating back over 150 years.

We accept a wide variety of qualifications. Below you will find information on undergraduate and postgraduate entry requirements, English Language requirements, potential scholarships for international applicants and details of our overseas agents and representatives.

Higher Education Highlights

Responding to a growing need for cross-functional integration of policies with practices in higher education, our intellectually rich modules foster a learning culture of leadership and development, innovation and evaluation.

Professional Accreditations

• The MSc provides opportunities for diversified assessment which authentically replicates your professional practice, such as institutional reports, research papers, policy briefings, conference presentations, portfolios, and websites. The learning outcomes are aligned with international professional accreditation.

Industry Links

• The MSc in Higher Education will enhance the quality of your academic, management and support staff, and will put them in a strong position to lead higher education discussions on transformation, access, quality and the digital in your national context, with international standing. The programme connects institutional educational development and quality enhancement with the international academic field of Higher Education studies. In so doing, it brings together various actors from within your organisation to dynamically and responsively strengthen your institutions’ vision and purposes, aligning these with implementation in practice.

Career Development

• Make informed judgments about the validity of arguments of ‘best practice’ for your context and purposes, to inform the ways in which you refine and innovate towards ‘next practice’.
• Envisage ways ahead in which the quality of current practices may be extended and enhanced, and innovations be infused. In the process, the field of Higher Education is made accessible to increase your publication output, research funding and impact.
• Create opportunities for stakeholders to inform quality, access and transformation of academic aspects of higher education in this digital age. In addition to supporting you generate data and feedback from various participants in higher education, the programme enables interdisciplinary and international connections, collaborations and mobility.

Internationally Renowned Experts

• Queen’s is a world renowned research intensive university focused on the needs of society. Our research-led academics are committed to global academic excellence alongside local impact in areas of major societal challenge, working towards transformative processes of peace, inclusion and justice. Our education research is ranked 4th within the UK for research intensity, with 87% assessed as ‘internationally excellent or world leading’ (REF, 2014).
• You will be taught by staff who as your peers have research profiles of international standing, with a wide range of interests and networks in educational development, leadership, learning technologies and peace studies.

Student Experience

• Queen’s commitment to making a genuine, positive contribution to the needs of local communities and global societies is expressed in our Social Charter. This commits Queen’s to promoting research with impact, education with a social purpose, and equality and excellence. Furthermore, we are committed to using the University as a space to promote civic culture and intercultural dialogue. Within the University we seek to address legacies of exclusion through, for example, our active engagement with the Athena SWAN process to change the unequal representation of women, and our commitment to widening participation among our students.
• Your experiential engagement with technologies is a central objective of this programme. This enhances your learning processes as an individual, while building your capacity for digital communication and digital creation useful for your professional development and practice. The opportunity the MSc in Higher Education provides for you to reflect on your experiential learning of such technologies, is crucial for considering the contextual validity of such applications in your practice, in addition to more abstract and conceptual engagements within the formal content of the modules.

Important information for applicants: https://www.qub.ac.uk/International/International-students/Your-Country/...