VRTUVirtual Reality Transnational University

Campus onlineOpen to students worldwide

Reality reimagined, boundaries redefined.

VRTU, the Virtual Reality Transnational University, teaches undergraduate degrees in the social sciences in a fully immersive virtual campus. Lectures, seminars, libraries and student life, wherever you are.

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UndergraduateSocial sciences
CampusFully virtual
AdmissionsOpen now

About VRTU

One campus, every time zone.

VRTU is a university without a postcode. Students and faculty from around the world meet in shared virtual spaces for lectures, seminars, research and everything that happens in between.

Whether you log in from Tokyo, Nairobi or São Paulo, you are a full participant. You sit in the same room as your tutor and hear the student beside you from where they are sitting.

Programmes
Undergraduate social sciences
Hardware
Headset provided
Location
Wherever you log in
Language
English

What we value

  1. Presence

    Learning works best when people share a room. Ours just happens to be virtual.

  2. Debate

    Ideas get better when they are argued over, openly and in good faith.

  3. Evidence

    We follow the evidence, and change our minds when it moves.

The campus

Built from the places universities began.

Our spaces draw on some of the oldest and most beautiful academic buildings in Europe, fitted with everything a modern university needs.

Arrival

The Courtyard

Every student's first stop. Meet your cohort, find your bearings and step into the rest of campus.

Teaching · Spatial audio

Lecture halls

Every seat hears equally well, and each voice comes from where its speaker stands. Share your screen with a neighbour or the whole room.

Research · Open all hours

The Library

Reading rooms worth visiting for their own sake, with modern search across a very large collection.

Student life

Social spaces

Clubs, societies and quiet corners, organised by students for students.

Undergraduate programmes

Twelve degrees in the social sciences.

Small tutor groups, taught by faculty from universities around the world.

  • ECOEconomics
  • ENVEnvironmental Studies and Policy
  • GENGender Studies
  • HISHistorical Studies
  • INTInternational Relations
  • LAWLegal Studies
  • PHIPhilosophy
  • POLPolitical Science
  • PUBPublic Policy
  • SOCSociology and Social Anthropology
  • NATNationalism Studies
  • MEDMedia and Communications

Admissions

Admissions are open.

Applications for the coming academic year are open. Tell us who you are and what you want to study.

  1. Apply online. It takes about ten minutes.
  2. Review. Our admissions team will be in touch.
  3. Get set up. We send your headset and help you through setup.
  4. Arrive on campus. Meet your tutor group and begin.

Application · Undergraduate

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