Students have access to a range of opportunities outside of their course that will help enhance their studies. These include:

King's Edge is an extracurricular program designed to help students at King's build essential skills like critical thinking, problem-solving, and digital literacy. By participating in internships, volunteering, and workshops, this can help with students employability and gain official recognition for achievements, supporting both academic and personal development​. 

The Associateship of King's College (AKC) is an optional course unique to King's and considers aspects of ethics, philosophy and theology, Biblical studies and Christian doctrine.

Lectures in recent years have included:

• 'God in Western Thought'
• 'Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies'
• ‘Religious Experience and Ethics’.

Former Archbishop Tutu and the Chief Rabbi, Dr Jonathan Sacks, have contributed to the AKC.

For further details, please visit the AKC web pages or contact the Dean's Office.

King’s Experience gives you formal recognition for activities that you do alongside your degree. You’ll complete tasks designed to help you understand your strengths and apply your learning to put your career plans into action. This means that everything you do while at King’s counts.

You can complete an Experience Award in three streams:

• Service
• Leadership
• Research

For more information, please visit the King's Experience web pages.

The Principal's Global Leadership Award (PGLA) is a unique course that encourages students to engage with some of the most pressing problems of the twenty-first century and interrogate what it means to be a global leader.

Each year we run the PGLA, offering our postgraduate students and some undergraduates the opportunity to learn from former world leaders, senior politicians, academics and policymakers. The award is an exceptional opportunity to study leadership as both theory and practice, and to learn about leadership from globally-renowned experts in the field.

Previous leaders that have taught on the PGLA include former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard; former UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke; former UK Universities Minister Lord David Willetts; former Head of OFSTED Baroness Sally Morgan; Professor Eileen Baldry from the University of New South Wales (Sydney); and the first black Vice-Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg, Professor Ihron Rensburg.

For more information, please visit the PGLA web pages.

At King's, we equip students to action their own meaningful work through a variety of online tools, networks and events alongside our own curated co-curricular programmes which are available to a range of students - from work shadowing to summer internships across a range of industries, and specific support for under-represented groups.

Some students also have the option to gain academic credit through the completion of an internship as part of an accredited internship module within their programme, this is supported by dedicated Internship Convenors in their department and our Accredited Internships Programme.

Find out more information on the King's Internships web pages.

All students at King's have access to the Study Abroad programme, which offers students the opportunity to spend set periods of time at a wide range of partner universities around the world. King’s will often lower tuition fees for students studying abroad.

Overseas opportunities also exist for medical and dental students to:

• undertake a short placement or elective during their clinical years
• pursue a comparative research project during their intercalated BSc; destinations range from the USA to Papua New Guinea.

Full details of what is on offer and how it can help enhance your studies and your employability beyond your degree can be found via the Study Abroad Office web pages.

Academic English & study skills support

The English Language Centre runs academic preparation courses for international students who do not yet qualify for direct entry into undergraduate degree courses. The Centre also provides an extensive range of academic English and study skills support free to both home and overseas students during their degree.

Evening language classes

Not-for-credit evening classes are offered in 23 languages. Specialised courses, such as legal and business language, are also available. Courses are open to the public. King’s students benefit from a discounted rate.

Short courses and professional development

Several Schools and departments at King’s offer professional development and short courses. Details of programmes offered are shown on the relevant School/department’s websites and the Short Courses website.

The KCLSU Student volunteering provides opportunities to get involved with local community groups and bigger organisations.

Some students choose to improve King’s College during their time here by becoming Student Representatives.