Department of Arts & Humanities

The University grew out of the Sheffield Medical School (founded in 1828), Firth College (1879) and the Sheffield Technical School (1884). These three institutions came together in 1897 to form the University College of Sheffield, which in turn became the University of Sheffield in 1905.

• We offer over 370 full-time undergraduate degree courses across 75 subject areas.
• Your masters is an investment in your future. It's a chance to capitalise on your talents and put yourself ahead in today's global careers market. It's also a chance to explore further, to discover more about the world and how you can help to make it better.
• When you join the Doctoral Academy at Sheffield, you're welcomed into a supportive community and treated as a colleague. You’ll gain free, personalised skills training, expert careers advice and become part of an inspiring, collaborative group of researchers from across the disciplines.

Training centres by subject:

• Carbon Capture and Storage and Cleaner Fossil Energy CDT
• Control and Systems Engineering CDT
• Energy: E-Futures DTC
• Energy, food production, climate change: Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures
• Energy Storage and its Applications, EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
• Environment: Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing Environment DTP
• Machining Science, EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
• Metallics: EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Metallic Systems
• Molecular-Scale Engineering CDT
• Photovoltaics CDT
• Polymers, Soft Matter and Colloids, EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
• Public Health, Economics and Decision Science, Wellcome Trust DTC
• Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine DTC

Your future career: you can do anything

We'll work with you to make sure your masters leads to great things.

Our careers advisers will help you with your global job search. National and international employers advertise vacancies with us. They also visit the campus to talk to our postgraduates.

Help is available at every stage of your course so you can start preparing for the rest of your life straight away. We have details of all the latest job vacancies and work experience opportunities. There are workshops on CV writing, job hunting and preparing for interviews.