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MASTERS LISTINGS
...the subject matters

Melanie Butler unveils the top ELT-related
UK ELT-related Masters in QS Top 50
Masters in Education and English departments Education departments*
1) UCL IOE (1)
ritish ELT postgraduate provision The ranking scores in brackets are based 2) Oxford (4)
has strength in depth. It boasts the on the QS Top Universities Subject Rankings 3) Edinburgh (21)
number one ranked centre in the 2019. Please note QS only gives individual 4) KCL (22)
BQS Top Universities Education rankings on the top 50 departments globally. 5) Manchester (34)
rankings: the Institute Of Education at UCL. Other departments are grouped under the 6) Birmingham (36)
Oxford and Cambridge both also rank in the categories of: Top 100, Top 150 and Top 200. 7) Nottingham (43)
top five. British ELT also boasts 11 All Master’s degrees from non-UK 8) Bristol, Glasgow (49)
programmes in the global Top 50, and 31 in Universities are in Tesol unless otherwise Top 100: Open University, Leeds,
the Top 200. Just over 20 percent of UK indicated. Details of all ELT-related degrees Southampton, Warwick
universities offer ELT-related Master’s in the British Universities listed below can be Top 150: Bath, Exeter, Leicester, Sheffield,
degrees and are listed in our UK ranking found on pages 23-29. York
As you can see in the Global Ranking Top 200: Manchester Metropolitan, Oxford
below, based on the QS findings, the UK has Global ELT-related Masters in QS Top Brookes, Reading
less competition from the US, where there 50 Education departments* *Based on QS 2019 ranking (QS score in
are few ELT-related Masters in top schools of 1) UCL (1) brackets).
education, but there is more completion from 2) Oxford (4) UK ELT-related Masters in QS Top 50
Canada, Australia, Hong Kong and 3) Hong Kong (6) English Departments*
Singapore. 4) Toronto (7) (Language and Literacies)
Over the last twenty-five years, the 5) Columbia University (9) 1) Cambridge (2)
research base for ELT seems to have 6) Nanyang Technical University 2) Birmingham (34)
3) Nottingham (48)
expanded out of the department of Singapore (14) Top 100: Cardiff
Linguistics and into the schools of Education, 7) Monash (15) Top 150: Liverpool
a reflection, perhaps, of the fact that most 8) Edinburgh (21) Top 200: Swansea
English Language Teaching in the world 9) KCL (22) *Based on QS 2019 ranking (QS score in
takes place within mainstream education. 10) Auckland (26) (Tesol, Applied brackets)
Most postgraduate students in the field are Linguistics) QS-ranked universities not listed here if
aiming to work in state schools, colleges and *Based on QS 2019 ranking (QS score in they do not offer ELT-related masters.
brackets).
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