BA History
About this course
BA in History. Core topics include Research Methods. A History in Practice module sequence develops source analysis and historical argumentation across the first two years, and optional modules span a wide chronological and geographical range. An original research dissertation is completed in the final year.
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Entry requirements
A level: ABB
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Real offers for this course
Applicants have posted 2 UCAS decisions for BA History (V100) at Cardiff University for 2027 entry so far. The published offer is ABB at A level.
What students say
Based on about 128 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Teaching on my course: 89%
- Learning opportunities: 82%
- Assessment and feedback: 84%
- Academic support: 93%
- Organisation and management: 76%
- Learning resources: 91%
- Student voice: 84%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 170 students who started
- Continued on course: 88%
- Left higher education: 8%
- Moved to a lower qualification: 4%
What graduates do next
Based on about 117 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Working: 58%
- Working and studying: 12%
- Further study: 14%
- Unemployed: 7%
Most common jobs
- Administrative occupations: 17%
- Business and public service associate professionals: 12%
- Elementary occupations: 10%
- Teaching Professionals: 10%
- Sales occupations: 9%
- Find their work meaningful: 67%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 50%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 30%
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 170 students who started
- A levels: 98%
- Access course: 1%
- A degree: 1%
- Other qualifications: 1%
Modules
- The Making of The Modern World, 1750-1970
- History in Practice Part 1: Questions, Frameworks and Audiences.
- History in Practice Part 2: Sources, Evidence and Argument.
- Global Histories
- A World Full of Gods
- Projecting the Past: Film, Media and Heritage
- Inventing a Nation: Politics, Culture and Heritage
- Medieval Worlds, AD 500 -1500
- Renaissance, Reformation and Revolution
- The Near East, Greece and Rome, 1000-323 BCE
- Empires East and West, 323 BCE to 680 CE
- Reading History
- Making History: Historians, Evidence, Audiences
- Debating History
- Past, Present and Future
- Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World
- Everyday Life in Medieval Britain c1200–1600
- A History of the Supernatural
- Accessible Pasts
- The British Civil Wars
- European Enlightenment(s): The View from the Margins
- America: From Revolution to Reconstruction
- Modern France
- Europe's Dark Century
- Close Neighbours, Dangerous Foes: China, Japan and Modern East Asia
- Politics and People in Modern Britain: Protest, citizenship and the state
- Environmental Histories
- Anti-Colonial Resistance
- Chwyldro, Diwylliant a Radicaliaeth, 1789–1914
- Heroes and Villains in the Middle Ages
- Myth, Narrative, and Identity: Storytelling and Society
- Researching History: Dissertation
- Histories of Asia: Ancient to Early Medieval
- War, Violence and Imperialism in the Ancient World
- Bodies and the Embodied Experience in the Ancient World
- Age of Arthur: Myths, History and Identity in Medieval Britain
- Crusading Worlds
- East Asia in a Global Second World War
- 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
- 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
- Britain at War: Culture and Politics on the Home Front, 1939-1945
- Public and Private: Gender, Identities and Power in Twentieth Century Britain
- Jews, Europe and the World
- Meiji Restoration, Meiji Revolution – Japan’s 19th century transformation
- City Lives: Identity, Culture and Violence in Early Modern Europe
- Cold War Cultures: Power, Conformity, and Dissent c. 1948–1990
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA 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 History at Cardiff University do next?
84% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA 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 History at Cardiff University?
The typical offer is ABB at A level. The average entrant had 137 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA History at Cardiff University?
88% of students continued into their second year, and 8% left higher education.