MA History

Introduction:

Embark on the MA History journey — an immersive experience in unravelling national and global histories.

Led by top experts, we're all about propelling your academic and personal success, regardless of your background. Flexibility meets depth as we infuse vital skills, leadership, creativity, and digital prowess into your growth.

Expect dynamic teaching methods, hands-on experiences, and international partnerships that make history relevant to today's challenges. Collaborate with external partners, dive into innovative assessments, and unlock doors to diverse careers.

Our graduates emerge as powerful communicators, ready for the modern, global, and digital world.

Careers and employability

Your career development

History graduates are highly employable due to their demonstrable versatility developed throughout their experiences. Students can go onto a wide range of careers including archives, marketing, education, law, museums management, planning, and public relations.

Although this course does not offer a formal placement, it is vocationally focused with work-like experiences and will help you to develop a broad range of transferable skills.

Our students have gone on to a wide range of careers, securing roles in sectors that include archiving, marketing, education, law, museum management, and public relations.

In addition, this course provides excellent preparation for undertaking a PhD. Many of the graduates of MA History have successfully secured postgraduate funding and are now studying at PhD level in early modern, modern, and contemporary history.

Students should have a UK honours (minimum 2.2) degree in History or a related subject, or equivalent. Applications from candidates with non-standard entry qualifications will be considered on an individual basis.