Part of the world-renowned University of London, Birkbeck is a world-class research and teaching institution, based in central London. Nearly all of our courses are taught in the evening, and Birkbeck is London's only specialist provider of evening higher education.

Birkbeck is one of the world’s leading research-intensive institutions. Our scholarship informs public policy, achieves scientific advances, supports the economy, promotes culture and the arts, and makes a positive difference to society.

Birkbeck’s five academic Schools and more than 40 specialist research centres work with government, business and educational and scientific institutions globally to extend the boundaries of knowledge.