Welcoming thousands of new students each year, we transform lives by doing the right things — inside of our lecture theatres, and across our communities. We combine a compassionate, inclusive approach to university-level study with game-changing research that is powerful, bold, and applied throughout professional practice. We are decisive, but nuanced; confident, but thoughtful. We are meticulous and methodical. Where meaningful support is needed, we provide it — and when tough, informed decisions are required, we make them.
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Our short and professional courses
University Language Programme
The University Language Programme (ULP) provides language courses at different levels of proficiency to students, staff and members of the public.
Academic English and language support
Find out about our English Language courses, designed to develop and enhance your knowledge of Academic English.
Health and Allied Professions CPD courses
Our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) framework is a great way for practitioners and health service providers to meet and advance their standards of practice.
Career Development
NTU’s career development courses will help you to forge a great future supporting, guiding and enabling the professional dreams of others.
Data science
Learn a new language, from Python to R with our data science courses.
Research in Social Sciences
We couldn’t claim to be a leading provider of professional qualifications without the bedrock of our acclaimed research culture. It’s a symbiotic relationship, where the credentials of one inform the capacity of the other.
Research in Arts and Humanities
Arts and Humanities is a diverse, supportive and collaborative community in which to innovate, explore and create.
Our academic departments
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Criminology and Criminal Justice at NTU centres around engagement with communities and the criminal justice system. Its work reflects the University’s wider commitment to transforming people’s lives and creating opportunities.
Nottingham Institute of Education
Studying for a degree, already graduated, or planning a career change? At Nottingham Institute of Education at NTU, we offer a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in education, teacher training and childhood so that you can take the next step.
Institute of Health and Allied Professions
The Institute of Health and Allied Professions develops collaborative and innovative education and research in health, aiming to make a positive contribution to improving health for all.
Department of Humanities
Welcome to the Department of Humanities at Nottingham Trent University. We're home to a diverse community of scholars and practitioners from a broad range of humanities disciplines.
Department of Journalism and Media
With strong industry links, the Department of Journalism & Media at NTU delivers cutting-edge courses and training at the forefront of journalism and media education.
Nottingham Institute of Languages and Intercultural Communication
Nottingham Institute of Languages and Intercultural Communication (NILIC) delivers innovative professional development, academic training, and language learning courses.
NTU Psychology
With over 150 academic experts with knowledge and experience across the breadth of the discipline, NTU Psychology in the School of Social Sciences is one of the largest departments in the UK.
Department of Social and Political Sciences
The Department of Social and Political Sciences provides a vibrant and close-knit academic community for staff and students. We take a progressive, sector-leading approach to the study of politics and international relations, encouraging student involvement in both traditional and practical forms of learning.
Department of Social Work, Care and Community
Want to make a difference? Social work and health offer some of the most rewarding, challenging and important jobs going – roles which give you the chance to meaningfully improve life for individuals, families, and even whole communities.
Latest news
Expert Blog: Kashmir terror attacks and identity politics - the need for a new Kashmir narrative
Wed 14 May 2025
NTU recognised as Policing Academic Centre of Excellence
Wed 07 May 2025
Sexual identity stress linked to poor sleep in LGB individuals
Thu 01 May 2025
NTU researchers secure university’s first-ever fellowships from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Thu 17 Apr 2025
Nurturing mothers help monkeys recognise key facial expressions
Mon 07 Apr 2025
NTU Mansfield launches BA Hons Social Work degree financially supported by Nottinghamshire County Council
Fri 04 Apr 2025
Upcoming events
14
May
Early Years Lead Practitioner Apprenticeship Briefing for Employers
19
May
Teacher Degree Apprenticeship: Launch & Q&A [Virtual Event]
03
Jun
Workhouse Lives V: ‘No Redeeming Feature’: Pauperism, Workhouses, and the Aliens Acts, 1906-1939’, Professor Ginger Frost, Samford University, USA
11
Jun
Social Justice: Reimagined, Repoliticised, Realised
Newton Building, City Campus, Nottingham, NG1 4BU
20
Jun
Trade Unions and University Research: Collaborating to make work better
25
Jun
Education Partnership Conference 2025
Nottingham Trent University Clifton Campus, College Drive, Clifton, Nottingham, NG11 8NS
26
Jun
Motivation in Learning
Teaching and Learning Building, NTU Clifton Campus, College Drive, Clifton, Nottingham, NG11 8NS
01
Jul
Workhouse Lives V: ‘Social control through fear and violence: Children and the New Poor Law workhouse’, Dr Carol Beardmore, The Open University
Social Sciences publications
Income, mental health, and sleep quality in sexual minorities in the United Kingdom
Caregiver experiences of a peer mentor family physical activity programme in England: a qualitative interview study
Teamwork and employability: assessing process or outcome
What did we lose when we turned polytechnics into universities?
Predicting the role of socio-economic indices for the human development index based on a multivariate regression model
Mapping scholarship: an interactive workshop to develop understandings of scholarship, explore factors that impact upon scholarship, and discuss what good scholarship looks like
Arts and Humanities publications
Jewish Nazi hunters - WW2 special episode: Jewish Brigade
Identity and Islamophobia in twenty-first century British Muslim novels
Collectors, curators, creators: West African folklore, and its colonial dislocation, present day decolonisation and contemporary reclamation
The murder of Giacomo Matteotti – reinvestigating Italy’s most infamous cold case
Statues: the UK’s plan to ‘retain and explain’ problem monuments is a backwards step
Finding women’s history in schools – challenges for the curriculum review
Our industry accreditations, partnerships and recognition
