University of Kent

We’ll help you get a head start in the job market. A degree from a top 50 university like Kent can help you to get into your chosen profession, move on in your career or change direction.

We have an excellent graduate employment record, and our award-winning Careers and Employability Service provides expert advice and helps you prepare for interviews and assessment days. The Service runs an annual Careers Fair as well as regular workshops and events to help you develop the skills and confidence needed to impress employers.

Our Employability Points scheme enables you to earn points for co-curricular activities such as joining a sports team or society, working part-time, mentoring, or attending careers workshops. Your points are exchanged for rewards, which can be anything from work shadowing to a summer internship.

For students with an entrepreneurial spirit, our Accelerator Space for Innovation and Responsible Enterprise (ASPIRE) can help you develop your business ideas into reality.

Your degree, your way. At Kent you can personalise your studies with a year abroad or a year in industry. You can also choose a degree with a year in Computing, Journalism or a language to further develop your skills.

University is about more than just studying. You learn about yourself as you begin to build your future, and make those friendships and memories that last a lifetime. Those memories come from the experiences you’ll have through the student groups you join, sports teams you’re on, causes you’re passionate about or study sessions where you’re inspired and challenged by people who share your love for your subject.

Our campuses are a fantastic backdrop to your experience and the University is in a great location, with miles of stunning coastline and countryside close by. We make it easy for you make the most of everything on offer with some great travel discounts. And if you want to explore a bit further afield, you can be in London, Paris or Brussels in a couple of hours!

Tuition fees at the University of Kent vary depending on the course you are studying. The majority of our undergraduate courses for 2023 entry start at £9,250 per year for UK students, with fees for postgraduate students, and students from outside of the UK varying. You can find full details of all of our fees broken down by course, either on the Student Finance section of our website, or on the course page itself. Here you can also find out more information on our contextual admissions policy, which takes a more rounded view of an applicant’s achievement and potential.