Postgraduate student experience
The University of York has nearly 4,000 postgraduate students, a dedicated college for graduate accommodation, and is one of the few UK universities with a separate Graduate Students’ Association.
Find out more about student life at York, and about the York Graduate Research School.
James Morris, MA and PhD
"Studying at York has been formative for me and for many of my contemporaries. The Department of History demands and rewards excellence and is supportive of all intellectual inquiry; as a result, it also generates research that reshapes our understanding of the past." Read more about James' experience
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Sarah Hartley, MA and PhD
"You will be taught and supervised by academics who are leaders in their fields and there are also always a variety of talks by visiting speakers going on, whatever your particular interests... I also like the ethos of the University."
PhD student profiles
Find out about the experiences of more of our former PhD students.
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