The graduating in Iranian Studies are able to communicate effectively in Modern Standard Persian (at the level B2 EER) in the four areas of language acquisition: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Graduates have broad knowledge and understanding of the culture, literature, and traditions of the Middle East.

Graduates of the B.A. programme have a good grasp of the principal theories of religion, have a basic knowledge of the main religious traditions, and have a profound grounding in one of them. They have learnt to classify, process and critically analyse mainly textual sources. They speak one major foreign language and read texts in another one.