UCAS code
Duration
Year abroad*
International Baccalaureate**
A-levels
BA History
V100
3 years
✓
6,5,5
AAB-ABB
BA Modern and Contemporary History
V140
3 years
✓
6,5,5
AAB-ABB
VV19
3 years
✓
6,5,5
AAB-ABB
History
DEGREE PROGRAMMES
JOINT DEGREES BA Ancient & Medieval History BA English & History
QV31
3 years
✓
6,5,5
AAB-ABB
BA History & Music
VW13
3 years
✓
6,5,5
AAB-ABB
BA History & Philosophy
VV51
3 years
✓
6,5,5
AAB-ABB
BA History, Politics and International Relations
VLN1
3 years
✓
6,5,5
AAB-ABB
BA Modern Languages & History
RV91
4 years
✓✓
6,5,5
AAB-ABB
*✓ denotes optional year abroad. ✓✓ denotes integrated year abroad. See p.37 for more details. ** Required Higher level grades with a minimum of 32 points overall. For Joint programmes, other requirements may apply, see other department’s page for full details. We welcome applications from students taking additional school or college qualifications, including the EPQ. See p.134. For advice for applicants from a diverse and/or non-traditional background, see p.135. For A-level qualification equivalencies for each course, including BTEC, please refer to our website.
Queen Victoria opens Royal Holloway College on 30 June 1886: Archives, Royal Holloway, University of London PH/100/1/1
Your future career • As well as a great love of the subject, History students also develop essential skills of analysis, argument and communication – all highly valued in today’s increasingly globalised and competitive employment market. • By training you to understand and respect other values and cultures, you will be ideally placed to develop insights and make decisions based on multi-layered understandings of how international systems and domestic social, economic and cultural factors operate and interconnect. • History alumni are working in careers as varied as the law, journalism, business analysis, publishing, marketing and public relations, finance, teaching, museums and archives, media and government.
93%
of our graduates are employed or go onto further study within six months of graduating.* *(DLHE, 2017)
• Recent graduates have secured a wide variety of positions including Reporter at Jewish Chronicle, Civil Service Fast Stream, Data Analyst at Ernst & Young and General Assistant at English Heritage.
royalholloway.ac.uk/history
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