Enrolment Guide for new and continuing Postgraduate Students  

The College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences is one of the largest centres for research and professional training in Life Sciences, Medicine, Veterinary Science, Dentistry and Nursing in the UK.  With just over 1200 postgraduate students, the College Graduate School is a thriving intellectual community, providing training and teaching for the clinicians, researchers and allied health professionals of tomorrow.

With an on-going programme of investment in buildings and equipment, the College provides students with access to state-of-the-art facilities and world-class researchers. The College also offers a broad-based skills training programme designed to help students acquire a wide range of transferable skills that they will require in pursuing their future careers.

In addition to being at the forefront of internationally-competitive, leading-edge research, the College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences also offers 57 Postgraduate Taught Programmes to graduates from a range of clinical, veterinary medicine and biomedical backgrounds.   College Graduate School students come from a wide variety of diverse cultural backgrounds.  Over 25% of our students come from either the EU or overseas, and a range of services have been especially developed to support this group, including Pre-Sessional English courses for speakers whose first language is not English, and counsellors to whom international students can turn for help and advice.

The College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences was created in August 2010, by merging the Faculties of Medicine, Biomedical & Life Sciences and Veterinary Medicine.   All Faculties across the University of Glasgow have been restructured in this way, the purpose of which is to enhance our position as one of the world’s great, broad based, research intensive universities, second to none in Scotland.  By merging the existing three Faculties to create the College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, postgraduate students will benefit, by having access to a wider breadth of academic disciplines and subject areas.

 Click here to download details of our Postgraduate Taught Programmes in a PDF format.

The College Graduate School office is based in Room 363, Wolfson Link Building.  The office can be found at point B10 on the campus map.

MVLS excels in postgraduate research satisfaction survey

Research students in the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences have rated their research environment more highly than the Russell Group average in the recent Postgraduate Research Experience Survey run by the Higher Education Academy.

Amongst the highlights:

• 86% of students stated the research environment had met their expectations.  6% higher than other Scottish institutions and 5% higher than the average for our fellow Russell Group institutions (the 20 leading research led universities across the UK).
• 92% of students agreed that their supervisor had the skills and subject knowledge to support their research, 4% higher than the Russell Group average.
• 99% of students felt that the supervisory support and guidance was available to complete their research degree.
• MVLS research students rated a 'suitable working space' and the ability to 'access necessary equipment' at 5% and 4% higher than the Russell Group averages respectively.
• In addition MVLS students rated their opportunity for the further development of research and transferable skills at a higher average than their Russell Group peers.

Commenting on the results, Professor Mandy MacLean, Dean of Graduate Studies said, "We are delighted to have received such positive results from our students.  It illustrates that as well as carrying out ground breaking research, our academics are working hard to provide an excellent research environment for students".

Postgraduate research opportunities