Focus on your interests
Our courses can be tailored to your own areas of interests and professional development needs and you’ll be encouraged to explore new ideas, perspectives and world views extending beyond teaching and learning.
Visiting guest speakers will introduce you to new educational topics and challenge your critical reflection and understanding.
Placement opportunities
Our full-time undergraduate course offers a wide variety of placement opportunities which help you to develop key skills and put your learning into practice. Placements enable you to explore different career paths and help you decide what you might want to do when you graduate.
Past students have spent placements in diverse settings including a refugee camp, a maternity ward and a children's community centre.
Learn from the experts
You will be taught by a highly qualified, experienced and enthusiastic research-active team with an outstanding national reputation and comprehensive research profile that informs course content.
Research and professional expertise and interests are hugely varied across the team and tutors harness their passion and enthusiasm in support of their students.
The specialist Curriculum Centre on our Falmer campus houses more than 30,000 resources, spanning all the subjects in the national curriculum. The collection includes games, pictures, charts, education packs and an extensive collection of children’s books.
The Falmer library also houses an extensive array of literature and resources related to education studies.
After graduation
Education studies degrees at Brighton significantly enhance prospects, opening doors to further study as well as professional employment.
Many of our undergraduate students choose to stay with us after graduation, securing places on our PGCE and MA courses as the next step towards their career in education.
Career success
Graduates leave confident, articulate, highly skilled and well equipped to contribute as professionals in a wide range of educational roles in the UK and beyond.