Sheffield Hallam University (SHU), in collaboration with the School of Continuing and Professional Education (SCOPE), City University of Hong Kong, offers a one year top-up degree programme leading to the award of Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Applied Social Science.

Introduction to Sheffield Hallam University

Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) is one of the UK’s largest and most diverse universities: a community of more than 30,000 students, 4,000 staff and more than 280,000 alumni around the globe.

SHU offers exceptional teaching across 700 foundation, undergraduate, postgraduate and research degree programmes. Their programmes all focus on developing students’ skills to excel in their careers. SHU embeds work experience and real-world case studies into their teaching, giving students many opportunities to put their knowledge into practice. SHU has decades of experience in delivering courses internationally.

The excellence of teaching has been widely recognised – SHU has been awarded the University of the Year in the Education North Awards 2022; the University of the Year for teaching quality in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020; the Silver Award from the UK government’s Teaching Excellence Framework, as well as achieving 82% of student satisfaction score in the National Student Survey.

For further details about SHU, please visit www.shu.ac.uk

Social Science at Sheffield Hallam University

Social Science at Sheffield Hallam University has a distinctly applied character. The university's teaching, research and business services cover a broad remit, from the development of new government and European laws, to the policy responses of the public, private and voluntary sectors.

Academic staff are actively involved in the training by UK’s Higher Education Academy (HEA) to become Fellow of HEA, a teaching qualification required by British universities.

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BA (Hons) Applied Social Science is an exempted programme under the Non-local Higher and Professional Education (Regulation) Ordinance (reference number 451254). It is a matter of discretion for individual employers to recognise any qualification to which this programme may lead.

This programme is recognized under the Qualifications Framework. QF Level: 5 QR Registration Number: 14/002769/L5 Validity Period : 1 September 2014 to 31 August 2026