Overview
Our innovative and flexible Liberal Arts BA enables you to create a degree programme that suits your own interests. Select from a wide range of options across the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and gain a wide- ranging qualification that will enhance your employability and provide an ideal platform for work or postgraduate study. You will study a combination of required and optional modules, and choose a subject in which you will major. You will also study a language and have the opportunity to spend time abroad.
Key benefits
- A flexible and tailored degree with a wide range of optional modules within your major and beyond.
- A strong focus on developing your skills and making you highly employable.
- An interdisciplinary focus on the arts, humanities, and social sciences, with no mathematics or science requirements.
- King’s has been researching and teaching Liberal Arts subjects for over 150 years and is amongst the world’s leading universities.
- A truly international staff with a wealth of experience in Liberal Arts teaching.
- Course delivered at The Strand Campus in the heart of London, within easy reach of numerous cultural and political institutions.
- Unique ‘Lives of London’ module which uses the streets and spaces of the city as a laboratory for interdisciplinary learning.
From politics to theology to music to film studies, you can try pretty much anything in your first year which is great for students who aren’t sure what they want to choose yet!
Course essentials
The Liberal Arts BA offers you outstanding flexibility, balancing breadth of knowledge across disciplines with the opportunity for in-depth study in a field of your choice.
During each year, your study will be anchored by a distinctive required module. You will then choose from a wide range of optional modules before selecting a major for years two and three, enabling you to tailor the degree to your own interests. In year one, you will also take a foreign language module, delivered by King’s Language Centre; you will then have the opportunity to continue studying at the King’s Language Centre throughout your degree. The academic year is divided into two semesters, and at the beginning of the second semester of your first year you will select a major subject, which will be the main focus of your study in your second and third year. In your second year, we encourage you to spend a semester abroad at one of our partner institutions. However, if you choose to major in Modern Languages, you will spend a full-year studying abroad at one of our partner institutions, and the length of your course will increase to four years.
Special features
Optional study abroad
Key Information
Course type:
Single honours
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time
Required A-Levels:
AAA
Duration:
Three years full-time (a modern languages major is four years, with the third year spent abroad)
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2026
Application deadline:
16 September 2025
Taught in
Administrative bodies
Awarding body
King's College London and Affiliates
Regulating body
Base campus
Strand Campus
Strand Campus feels like the heart of London—historic yet buzzing with energy. Nestled by the Thames, it offers world-class academics, vibrant student life, and endless inspiration from the city’s culture and diversity.