School of Oriental and African Studies - England

School of Oriental and African Study is a Higher educational College under the University of London specializing in the study of Asia, Africa, near and Middle East. The School was inaugurated in 1916 and has two campuses one at Russell Square, Bloomsbury and the other one is in Vernon Square. The School has more then 200 academics dealing with different aspect of Asia, Africa and Middle East (Language, Culture, society, Background). Of the fifteen departments, ten have scored 5 or 5*. This acts as proof of the high quality teaching imparted in the institute..

Departments under Faculty of Arts and Humanities:

• Anthropology and Sociology
  
• Arts and Archaeology
  
• History
  
• Music
  
• Study of religion
  
• Media and film studies

Departments under Faulty of Language and Culture

• Africa
• China and Inner Asia
• Japan And Korea
• South Asia
• South East Asia
• Linguistics
• The Language Centre
• Gender studies
• Near and Middle East

Departments under Faculty of law and Social Science:

• Development Studies
• Economics
• Finance and management Studies
• Politics and International studies
• School of studies.

Students come here from 100 countries for their Undergraduate, Postgraduate and research degrees. The school also offers a number o non-degree programmes and foundation courses.

Scholarship:

The school offers a range of Scholarships like SOAS Open Scholarship, SOAS Bursary, SOAS research student fellowship, Abu-Hakima Bursary, Jain Studies MA Scholarship, William Ross Scholarship, Commonwealth Shared Scholarship, and Bernard Buckman Scholarship.

SOAS also provides a number of facilities like it has glorious library with an enormous collection of books in 4000 languages.

Accommodation:

The School has student's residencies Known as Dinwiddie House and Paul Robeson house, with the capacity to accommodate 750 students.

Contact Details:

School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London,
Thornhaugh Street,
Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Telephone : +44 (0)20 7637 2388
Fax : +44 (0)20 7436 3844
For more details you can log on to www.soas.ac.uk .