Stephen Law

Heythrop College is 400 years old in 2014. I have been teaching philosophy at Heythrop College for seventeen years. This was my first full time teaching appointment after leaving Oxford. Unlike many academics keen to climb the career ladder, and who consequently tend to migrate from one institution to another at the beginning of their careers, I have stayed put. Why? The answer lies in what I discovered when I arrived here. I quickly discovered just how unique and valuable an institution Heythrop is. We are a specialist college focussing on just philosophy and theology. We are small too, which means that students and staff not only share a passion for the same subjects, they are also known to each other. Wander the corridors of Heythrop and you’ll find people deep in conversations about philosophy and theology. Irrespective of their religious belief - or lack of religious belief - students and staff are bound together by shared, deep interested in fundamental questions about real...

I happen to be tutor for admission for the BA in philosophy at Heythrop College University of London. If you want to find about more about our BA programme, or an evening MA in philosophy, get in touch (email address is in the header to this page). Obviously with the new fees system, all colleges are focusing on recruitiment, and so are we of course. Obviously we're not as well known as some other colleges. But we are quite exceptional. So here are a few facts about Heythrop you might be interested in, if you're thinking about pursuing a degree in Philosophy or Theology. (1) Heythrop is the University of London college that specializes in just Philosophy and Theology. It's all we do. (2) Heythrop students achieve remarkably good results, despite our comparatively modest entry requirements. We have outperformed other better known colleges in terms of number of first class hons degrees achieved, for example (3) This is because, astonishingly, Heythrop runs a one-to-one tutori...