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Human Sciences at other places than UCL and oxford

Hi, I am thinking of either studying Business management or Human Sciences at uni but have hit a bit of a roadblock. I was wondering if anyone knew of any courses similar to the Oxford course of human sciences as I like the theory and maths side of it? I heard that at some point Exeter had a similar course but I’m not sure if that still exists?

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Hi - not sure what year you're in so I could be too late!

But if not...

Exeter no longer does their human sciences course, but they do offer natural sciences (you can pick from loads of options across all the sciences, and it's quite mathsy if you're into maths). Bath offer the same course also (but with slightly different modules).

Exeter also offers a flexible combined honours option where you can merge together two degrees to make it similar to human sciences (e.g. biomedical sciences and anthropology)

Birmingham and UCL both offer human sciences - very similar to the Oxford course.

Warwick does a few similar courses I believe? Health and medical sciences is quite similar.

Durham has health and human sciences

Generally in terms of degrees, the closest you can probably get to human sciences would be geography, or maybe social sciences? Biomedical sciences would cover the science aspect of it, but would probably lack the social and cultural side.


Best of luck!

Reply 2

Its also worth looking at 'Natural Sciences' - a multi-discipline science program - each Uni offering this will have different subject combinations depending on the specialisms of that Uni - Natural Sciences - Durham University
or 'Arts and Sciences' - Arts and Sciences BASc - University of Birmingham

Reply 3

it's worth noting that birmingham's human sciences does NOT have anthropology & minimal sociology content (whatever you can squeeze out of basic geography/psychology modules). this was a dealbreaker for me; however, the flexibility to take a number of geog, psych, sports/exercise sciences & business-oriented modules alongside the mandatory biology component might be attractive for you

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by Georgious
Hi, I am thinking of either studying Business management or Human Sciences at uni but have hit a bit of a roadblock. I was wondering if anyone knew of any courses similar to the Oxford course of human sciences as I like the theory and maths side of it? I heard that at some point Exeter had a similar course but I’m not sure if that still exists?

They discontinued Human Sciences at Exeter, but their Evolutionary Biology course is quite similar and you take a lot of the same modules. However theres not a lot of maths in Human Sciences in general so not sure if its what you want.

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