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Popular Postgraduate Courses

The following are some of the most popular postgraduate programmes with students from your country.

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Advanced Composites and Polymers - PgDip/MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

The course covers composite and polymer materials and their processing, and is driven by the school's industrial work and research.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Animation - MA  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

Storytelling and skills building through animation production

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Artificial Intelligence - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

Creating the next generation of high quality professionals for the AI industry.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Biomedical Engineering - PgDip/MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

The course is designed for students wanting to specialise in biomedical engineering, which is concerned with developing new medical technologies.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Biotechnology Research - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Coleraine campus

Training in biotechnology research with a strong emphasis on development of advanced practical skills.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Coleraine campus

Business Development and Innovation - MSc  Part-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

Inspiring innovation

Key information:

  • Part-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Business Development and Innovation - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

Inspiring innovation

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Communication and Public Relations - PgDip/MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

The course combines academic grounding with up to date professional skills with frequent contributions from established profession leaders.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Computer Science - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

Creating the next generation of high-quality professionals for the Computer Science industry.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Construction Management - PgCert/PgDip/MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

Upskilling construction managers and industry leaders to excel in a rapidly evolving sector

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Criminology and Criminal Justice - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

Develop advanced criminological skills tailor made for high impact careers in crime, justice and compliance.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Data Science - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Derry~Londonderry campus

Providing high quality professionals for the Data Science industry.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Derry~Londonderry campus

Data Science with Applied Research - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Derry~Londonderry campus

Providing high quality professionals for the Data Science industry.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Derry~Londonderry campus

Digital Construction Analytics and BIM - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

Digital Construction at Ulster is an industry-linked highly creative course, specialising in BIM, Digital Technologies and Data Analytics.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Digital Marketing Communication and Leadership - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

Strategies for success in the digital age.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Energy Storage - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

MSc Energy Storage provides the expertise to fulfil the expectations of an energy storage market that is predicted to grow to $250 billion by 2040.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Energy Storage Applied Research - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

MSc Energy Storage provides the expertise to fulfil the expectations of an energy storage market that is predicted to grow to $250 billion by 2040.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

English Literature - MA  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Coleraine campus

If you love reading and writing and want to develop your skills and passion for both, join us!

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Coleraine campus

Fire Safety Engineering - PgDip/MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

Research led, industrially relevant master's programme offered by an internationally leading research team with unrivalled experimental facilities.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Gender and Human Rights - LLM  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

A postgraduate course dedicated to the study of gender and human rights.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Global Investment Management - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

A fast-track qualification for non-finance graduates seeking employment in the rapidly growing financial services sector.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Health Promotion and Public Health - PgCert/PgDip/MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

Developing the knowledge and expertise for effective public health practice in a rapidly changing world.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Human Nutrition - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Coleraine campus

Intensive 12 month taught master's course in Human Nutrition for science graduates which is accredited by the Association for Nutrition.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Coleraine campus

Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice - LLM  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

Study human rights law and transitional justice with world-leading experts in a society transitioning from conflict.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

International Business - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Derry~Londonderry campus

Prepare you with the knowledge and professional skills to lead and manage business towards a world of opportunities.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Derry~Londonderry campus

International Business with Data Analytics - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Derry~Londonderry campus

Combining international business knowledge with data analytics, this course will prepare you with the strategic focus to get ahead in your career.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Derry~Londonderry campus

International Business with Human Resource Management - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Derry~Londonderry campus

Preparing you with knowledge and professional skills to lead and manage international business.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Derry~Londonderry campus

International Commercial Law and ADR - LLM  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

The LLM in International Commercial Law and ADR offers modules that are at the cutting-edge of industry and will lead to a professional accreditation.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

International Event Management - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

Make your career eventful.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

International Tourism and Hospitality Management - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

A world of opportunity in an industry sector that is continuously evolving.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

International Tourism and Hospitality Management (with Advanced Practice) - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

A world of opportunity in an industry sector that is continuously evolving.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Legal Innovation and Technology Law - LLM/MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

Unlock Your Future in Law and Technology

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Management and Corporate Governance - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

The only PG course in Ireland which combines MSc Management Corporate Governance with The Chartered Governance Institute UK Ireland qualification.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Management and Corporate Governance - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Marino Institute, Dublin

The only PG course in Ireland which combines MSc Management Corporate Governance with The Chartered Governance Institute UK Ireland qualification.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Marino Institute, Dublin

Manufacturing Management - PgDip/MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

The course enables candidates to develop a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of key scientific principles, theories and practice.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Marketing - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

Transforming you into a strategic thinking marketing professional who gets results using the latest digital marketing tools and strategies.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Mechanical Engineering - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

MSc Mechanical Engineering is a specialist programme, providing knowledge understanding of concepts methods required to solve industrial problems.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Nursing - PgCert/PgDip/MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

The MSc Nursing is a challenging course suitable for qualified nurses who wish to develop higher levels of criticality in research and leadership.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Optometry - MOptom  Full-time , Undergraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Coleraine campus

At Ulster we offer a 4-year Master of Optometry with Honours degree program.

Key information:

  • UCAS code: B510
  • Full-time Undergraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Coleraine campus

Peace and Conflict Studies - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

The course offers a unique opportunity to study peace and conflict in a vibrant society emerging from a violent past.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Pharmaceutical Sciences - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Coleraine campus

This programme is designed to provide an up-to-date knowledge and understanding of core areas of pharmaceutical manufacturing and research.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Coleraine campus

Pharmacy - MPharm (Hons)  Full-time , Undergraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Coleraine campus

The MPharm programme at Ulster will provide you with an academically challenging and vocationally relevant pharmacy education and training.

Key information:

  • UCAS code: B230
  • Full-time Undergraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Coleraine campus

Professional Software Development - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Derry~Londonderry campus

Providing high quality professionals for the software development industry.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Derry~Londonderry campus

Professional Software Development (Data Science) - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Derry~Londonderry campus

Providing high quality professionals for the software development industry.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Derry~Londonderry campus

Sport and Exercise Psychology - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

Providing a recognised level of training for aspiring professionals in the field of sport and exercise psychology.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Strategic Accounting - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

Accelerate your accounting career with this Masters programme linked to ACCA professional exemptions.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Strength and Conditioning - MSc  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

'Providing coaches with a foundation to excel'

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus

Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages - MA  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Coleraine campus

Gain the skills to teach English to speakers of other languages and put your learning into practice with an overseas teaching placement.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Coleraine campus

User Experience and Service Design - MDes  Full-time , Postgraduate ,  2025/26 entry year , , Belfast campus

Master the art of user experience and service design to create solutions that shape the future of user-centric experiences.

Key information:

  • Full-time Postgraduate
  • Year of entry: 2025/26
  • Belfast campus