University of East Anglia - International Summer School
Location
England: London, Norwich
Description
The University of East Anglia's International Summer School provides a unique experience to live and learn in the UK at a world leading university during a 4 week period in the summer. Our course gives students the opportunity to gain academic credit studying abroad in one of a range of exciting academic modules, all delivered by the University's leading academics and industry experts.
Our flexible programme enables students to develop advanced skills in their current discipline or to try something completely new, undertaking more than 40 hours intensive and participative learning in a challenging and stimulating environment. Our modules all make the most of interactive delivery and most include academic fieldtrips across the region or to London. There is also the opportunity to live and learn in the heart of London's financial district, electing modules that take a two week residential in the country's capital during the Summer School experience.
As well as living and learning on our beautiful campus, Summer School students will benefit from an inclusive social programme that takes in the best of the Eastern region with those who know it best. Our friendly and knowledgeable Student Ambassadors will help students to embrace the bustling atmosphere of the historic city of Norwich and to explore England's glorious coast and countryside.
Our basic fee is inclusive of all tuition, private en-suite accommodation, airport transfers, a meet and greet induction programme and social and a finale ceremony party, with social trips included to north and east Norfolk beaches, to rural castles and Stately Homes including The Queen's Sandringham residence, and an excursion to London to include all the famous landmarks, as well as optional trips to visit the zoo, the city of Cambridge, pre-historic Stonehenge and so much more.
For students thinking about summer study we've got the whole experience covered!
Highlights
10 Reasons to Choose the University of East Anglia
1. Satisfied students
We are the number one university in the UK for student satisfaction in the 2013 Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey. We are also top in the UK for accommodation and Students' Union and best in England overall, according to the 2009 WhatUni awards, and the most recent Guardian university league table placed us in the top 20 UK institutions.
2. Prize-winning staff and students
Three of our graduates - Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro and Anne Enright - have won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Alumnus Sir Paul Nurse won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001 and over 20 of our environmental scientists shared with Al Gore the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. UEA contributed more than any other university to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Our School of International Development and its innovative commercial arm have been awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education.
3. World-class research
Nearly 90% of our research was rated of international excellence in the latest Research Assessment Exercise, with over 50% 'world leading'. Norwich has the fourth greatest concentration of 'most highly cited researchers' in the UK, after London, Oxford and Cambridge - thanks to the University and its Norwich Research Park partners. In a survey of top institutions researching geosciences over the last decade, the University of East Anglia was the third university in the world, just after Harvard and Princeton. (Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators)
4. Innovation
We have a reputation for innovative courses: our pioneering Environmental Sciences and International Development schools bring together experts from a number of fields to work collaboratively; we offered the first Creative Writing degree in the UK and our recently introduced MBA in Strategic Carbon Management is a world first.
5. Gigs
The Independent says our Student Union gig roster is "like pop music's roll of honour, with the biggest names performing each year and other students' unions wondering how on earth they manage it".
6. Literature and lectures
We attract some of the world's most famous writers to two International Literary Festivals every year, as well as hosting leading experts from many fields giving major public lecture series on a wide range of topics.
7. Visual arts
We are home to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, described by the Times University Guide as "perhaps the greatest resource of its type on any university campus". The collection combines works from famous western artists with fine and applied arts from around the globe all in an iconic building.
8. Sport
We top the Independent and Complete University Guide league table for sports facilities. Our Sportspark is the biggest indoor sports centre in Britain and has an Olympic-sized pool, climbing wall, athletics track, gym and an extensive range of sports and leisure activities.
9. Architecture
Our stunning campus, just 15 minutes from the centre of Norwich, has won over 20 awards for architecture. First-year undergraduates from outside Norwich are guaranteed one of our 3,500 campus bedrooms, (many en-suite) if you apply promptly. The Architects' Journal has voted our original residences - the ziggurats - in the top ten examples of university architecture in the country.
10. A fine city
The fine city of Norwich ("None finer", according to Stephen Fry) combines heritage charm with 21st century attitude and is rated as one of the top ten shopping venues in the UK. And national crime statistics published in June 2009 show Norfolk to be the safest county in England.
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