Open Days and visits for postgraduate study

An ideal opportunity to find out more about postgraduate study at Cardiff University.

Open Days

Our autumn postgraduate open day will take place at our brand new Centre for Student Life at the Cathays Park campus on Wednesday 17 November 2021 (10:00 to 14:00).

The open day provides a great opportunity for you to explore our campus, the city and find out everything you need to know about postgraduate study at Cardiff University.

Before booking to attend the event please read through the COVID-19 safety measures information so you know what to expect on the day.

Here’s an overview of what’s taking place at the open day:

General talks (10:15, 11:15 and 12:15)

• Master’s funding for UK students

Information fair (10:00 to 14:00)

• Ask staff all of your questions about accommodation, careers support, funding, how to apply, Languages for all programme, student support, Cardiff University Students' Union and more.

Meet our academics (10:00 to 14:00)

• Representatives from our academic schools will be available for you to talk to on the day.
• The following academic schools will be taking part in a subject fair based in the Centre for Student Life:
  • Accounting and Finance
  • Biological Sciences
  • Business
  • Business Professional Programmes
  • Dentistry
  • Economics
  • English (Language and Linguistics)
  • English (Literature and Creative Writing)
  • Healthcare Sciences
  • Law
  • Logistics and Operations Management
  • Management, Employment and Organisation
  • Marketing
  • MBA
  • Medicine
  • Nursing
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physiotherapy
  • Politics and International Relations
  • Psychology
  • Radiography
  • Social Sciences
• For those academic schools which aren’t represented at the subject fair, you will have the opportunity to meet staff within the relevant academic school building. Our student ambassadors will walk you to your school building from the meeting point in the subject fair at an allocated time. You will be able to select this time when booking to attend the event:
  • Archaeology and Conservation
  • Architecture
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Science and Informatics
  • Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Engineering
  • Geography and Planning
  • History
  • History (Ancient)
  • Journalism, Media and Culture
  • Mathematics
  • Modern Languages and Translation
  • Music
  • Optometry and Vision Sciences
  • Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Religious Studies and Theology
  • Software Engineering
  • Welsh/Cymraeg

Campus tours (10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 13:30)

• Join us on a tour of our Cathays Park campus, so you can see for yourself why Cardiff was voted one of the top ten most beautiful universities in the UK (The Times Higher Education, 2018).

Postgraduate Research information lounge (10:00 to 14:00)

• Ask us all of your questions about postgraduate research study throughout the day. You’ll have the opportunity to talk to staff from the Doctoral Academy, current research students and Deans of research representing our academic schools.

Postgraduate life on Cathays Park Campus

Although we can’t welcome you into our buildings in person at the moment, why not watch our video to get a feel for what postgraduate study is like at Wales’ only Russell Group university?

Postgrad Life on Cathays Park campus