Master of Science in Language Acquisition and Development

A one year master degree in how language is learned, covering first and second language acquisition, bilingual development, experimental method, statistics and a research project.

Bangor sits in a bilingual community where Welsh and English coexist daily, which makes bilingual language development research here unusually well grounded.

Master of Science in Language Acquisition and Development is taught at the Bangor University, a UK university with degree awarding powers. Because the language acquisition master is a degree, it supports an application under the UK Graduate Route, which gives two years of unsponsored work in Britain after the language acquisition master ends, or three years for a doctorate. To claim it after the language acquisition master you must be inside the UK on a valid student visa when you apply. One limit applies to the language acquisition master as to every taught course in Britain: the rules introduced in January 2024 stop taught students bringing a spouse or children as dependants, so the language acquisition master cannot support a family move.

Admission to Master of Science in Language Acquisition and Development requires a completed bachelor degree at 60 percent. The English requirement is IELTS 6.0 with no band below 5.5, and tuition for the language acquisition master is recorded at GBP 18,000 a year. Bangor charges no application fee, so applying for the language acquisition master costs you nothing, and no scholarship is recorded against it. the language acquisition master lists only two entry windows a cycle. Apply Study Visa manages the the language acquisition master application, the deposit, the offer, the CAS and the UK student visa as one process.