Our Department
Our Department was founded over 40 years ago and has become one of the
largest and most prestigious departments of its type in the world, with more
than 45 teaching and research staff, 200 postgraduate and 350 undergraduate
students.
We are an open, friendly and cosmopolitan department. Forty per cent of
our students come from outside the UK and 30 per cent of our undergraduates
are mature students.
World-class research
The most recent Research
Assessment Exercise (RAE, 2008) ranked Essex fourth in the UK for
English language and linguistics research, with the highest proportion of
research that is world-leading. By joining us you will become part of a
large and thriving research community, supported by excellent
facilities
and surrounded by academics
who are leaders in their fields.
Flexible course structures
All of our undergraduate courses offer a wide-ranging choice of modules
and have an extremely flexible structure, with the option of changing your
course at the end of the first and second years of study if you wish.
Writing the books that other institutions teach from
By studying with us, you will be taught by academics with international
reputations in various areas of language study. We are committed to teaching
and our staff members have produced some of the
leading textbooks in
their respective fields.