BA Archaeology and History
Entry requirements
A level: ABB
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What students say
Based on about 41 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Teaching on my course: 89%
- Learning opportunities: 83%
- Assessment and feedback: 74%
- Academic support: 94%
- Organisation and management: 46%
- Learning resources: 89%
- Student voice: 61%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 45 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- Continued on course: 95%
- Moved to a lower qualification: 5%
What graduates do next
Based on about 15 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 50%
- Working and studying: 5%
- Further study: 20%
- Unemployed: 15%
Most common jobs
- Administrative occupations: 17%
- Business and public service associate professionals: 12%
- Teaching Professionals: 10%
- Elementary occupations: 10%
- Sales occupations: 9%
- Find their work meaningful: 50%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 45%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 35%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 260 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 1%
- North West: 4%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 1%
- West Midlands: 8%
- East of England: 5%
- London: 19%
- South East: 10%
- South West: 16%
- Wales: 37%
- Northern Ireland: 1%
Who gets in
Based on about 45 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- A levels: 90%
- No formal qualifications: 5%
Modules
- History in Practice Part 1: Questions, Frameworks and Audiences.
- Discovering Archaeology
- The Archaeology of Britain: Prehistory to Present
- Global Histories
- The Archaeology of Mediterranean Societies
- Inventing a Nation: Politics, Culture and Heritage
- Medieval Worlds, AD 500 -1500
- Renaissance, Reformation and Revolution
- History in Practice Part 2: Sources, Evidence and Argument.
- The Near East, Greece and Rome, 1000-323 BCE
- Reading History
- Professional Placement in Archaeology or Heritage
- Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World
- Making History: Historians, Evidence, Audiences
- Debating History
- Everyday Life in Medieval Britain c1200–1600
- A History of the Supernatural
- The British Civil Wars
- European Enlightenment(s): The View from the Margins
- America: From Revolution to Reconstruction
- Modern France
- Europe's Dark Century
- Stalinism: State, Society, and Environment
- Close Neighbours, Dangerous Foes: China, Japan and Modern East Asia
- Politics and People in Modern Britain: Protest, citizenship and the state
- Chwyldro, Diwylliant a Radicaliaeth, 1789–1914
- Heroes and Villains in the Middle Ages
- An Introduction to Greek Art and Archaeology
- An Introduction to Prehistoric Britain and Europe
- Archaeology Independent Study
- An Introduction to the Archaeology of the Roman World
- Myth, Narrative, and Identity: Storytelling and Society
- Roman Britain
- Forensic and Osteoarchaeology
- Museums' Collections Management
- Spatial Technologies and Geographical Information Systems
- Britain in the Early Medieval World
- Histories of Asia: Ancient to Early Medieval
- War, Violence and Imperialism in the Ancient World
- Bodies and the Embodied Experience in the Ancient World
- Researching History: Dissertation
- Age of Arthur: Myths, History and Identity in Medieval Britain
- Crusading Worlds
- Spies and Espionage in the Medieval World
- Witchcraft and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1750
- Health and Illness in Early Modern Britain
- Mobile Lives: Travel, Exile, and Migration in the Early Modern World
- Native American History
- Utopias of Extremism: Revolutions in Comparative Context
- Czechoslovakia: The Twentieth Century in Miniature
- France under Occupation
- Inside the Third Reich
- Violence and Ideology in the Inter-War Soviet Union
- Change, Conflict, and Mass Mobilisation in Republican China, 1911-1945
- Peripheral Reverberations of the French Revolution
- Mayhem and murder: Investigating the Victorian Underworld
- The Making of British Socialism
- Public and Private: Gender, Identities and Power in Twentieth Century Britain
- Jews, Europe and the World
- Archaeology Dissertation
- Prehistoric Britain and Ireland
- The Archaeology of Death and Burial in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Archaeology and History at Cardiff University earn?
The median salary is £26,000 after 15 months, £23,500 after 3 years, £29,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £24,000 and £36,000. The £29,500 median after five years is £1,000 less than the UK median for History.
What do graduates of BA Archaeology and History at Cardiff University do next?
75% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Archaeology and History at Cardiff University?
89% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Archaeology and History at Cardiff University?
The typical offer is ABB at A level. The average entrant had 136 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA Archaeology and History at Cardiff University?
95% of students continued into their second year, and 0% left higher education.