The Graduate School of Humanities & Social Sciences

The Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences offers exciting opportunities for intellectual engagement and collegiality, our academic and professional staff foster and support cohort-building and networking between students, academic experts and industry leaders.

Our programs are of world class quality and scholarship, and our academics encourage critical inquiry, creativity, and a questioning of ideas and theories. We aim to provide an environment that enables our graduates to be responsive to changing global and workplace circumstances.

The Graduate School provides unique and purpose-built physical spaces in the magnificent heritage-listed Old Arts Building. Our graduates become part of a dynamic global community of thinkers, scholars and leaders, which extends beyond graduation to an alumni network.

The Graduate School offers sixteen Masters by Coursework programs across the humanities and social sciences. We also offer Master by Research and PhD programs.

World Rankings

The following details the latest world rankings for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

2011 QS World University Rankings

University of Melbourne overall rank
     31st

Faculty ranking: Arts and Humanities
    22nd

Discipline area rankings for the Faculty of Arts
    English Language and Literature - 14th
    Modern Languages - 16th
    History - 14th
    Philosophy - 15th
    Linguistics - 11th

All QS World Rankings

2011 Times Higher Education World Rankings

University of Melbourne overall rank
    37th

Discipline rankings for the Faculty of Arts
    Arts and Humanities - 19th
    Social Sciences - 25th

All Times Higher Education rankings

Our programs

• Executive Master of Arts
• Social Science programs including Applied Linguistics; Development Studies; Criminology; International Relations; Islamic Studies; Social Policy.
• Media, Communications and Publishing programs including Global Media Communication; Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing; Journalism and Publishing and Communications.
• Cultural management programs including Art Curatorship; Arts and Cultural Management (including a Moving Image specialisation); and Cultural Materials Conservation.

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