Welcome to all new students
It is a great pleasure to welcome you as a student of the College of Social Sciences and International Studies (SSIS) at the University of Exeter. Here you will be entering - or returning to - the world of the academy where your ideas matter and where you will be encouraged to read widely and think critically.
The College was created in 2010 to bring together six related and long-established disciplines within the University:
Interdisciplinary collaboration is a hallmark of our College, and many of our taught programmes offer the option of supplementing your main discipline with modules from a complementary subject area. Over recent years our subjects have featured at the top end of the UK's National Student Survey and in The Times Good University league tables. We are proud of this reputation which reflects well not only on our academic staff, but also on the commitment and talent of our students.
We now have around 1700 undergraduates and 1400 postgraduate students, who study on the two Exeter campuses (Streatham and St Luke's), the Cornwall campus at Tremough, or via distance learning from countries all over the world.
Wherever you are studying, and whether this is the beginning of your journey into higher education, a deeper exploration of your subject, or your entry into research, we hope that your time with us will be one you always reflect on as a happy and rewarding experience, and that you flourish both intellectually and as an individual. We wish you every success.
If you are a postgraduate research student commencing study in January 2012, please see our information for January starters.
