BA History (Placement Year)
About this course
BA Hons History (Placement Year) is an undergraduate History degree focusing on political, social, and cultural developments across different eras and global regions. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Historical Research, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Students undertake a professional work placement year in their third year to gain practical workplace experience before completing an independent dissertation. The first year establishes fundamental training through modules such as Handling Historical Evidence, Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, Revolutions in History, Controversy in History, and Modern Worlds, alongside optional subjects like Doing Criminology: How We Know About Crime and Global Challenges in World Politics. The second year examines major historical forces via core modules including Who Makes History?, War and Transformation, and Human and Environment, with options such as Body, Mind and Society and Death. Following the third-year work placement, the fourth year centers on advanced study through compulsory modules like The Use and Abuse of History and History Dissertation. Students can tailor their degree with optional modules covering diverse topics such as A Global History of the Cold War, Big Data and Dead People: Digital Histories of Crime, Justice and Punishment, 1760-1925, and Dangerous Thoughts': Soviet Dissent, Human Rights and the Cold War.
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Entry requirements
A level: AAB IB: 35 points overall with 16 points from the best 3 HL subjects
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Admissions (2022 entry, home applicants)
Offer rate 95%: 19 offers from 20 applications, from the university's Freedom of Information return.
What students say
Based on about 60 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Teaching on my course: 93%
- Learning opportunities: 85%
- Assessment and feedback: 78%
- Academic support: 90%
- Organisation and management: 70%
- Learning resources: 96%
- Student voice: 66%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 10 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 100%
What graduates do next
Based on about 59 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Working: 58%
- Working and studying: 10%
- Further study: 20%
- Unemployed: 6%
Most common jobs
- Administrative occupations: 20%
- Business and public service associate professionals: 15%
- Sales occupations: 10%
- Elementary occupations: 10%
- Teaching Professionals: 5%
- Find their work meaningful: 80%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 45%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 40%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 120 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 2%
- North West: 48%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 16%
- East Midlands: 3%
- West Midlands: 4%
- East of England: 3%
- London: 14%
- South East: 3%
- South West: 2%
- Wales: 2%
- Scotland: 1%
Who gets in
Based on about 15 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 100%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Gold overall, Silver for student experience, Gold for student outcomes.
Modules
- Handling Historical Evidence
- Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
- Revolutions in History
- Controversy in History
- Modern Worlds
- Doing Criminology: How We Know About Crime
- Global Challenges in World Politics
- English across Space and Time
- History of Philosophy: Ideas that Shaped the West
- Parties, Populism and Protest
- Thinking Sociologically
- Who Makes History?
- War and Transformation
- Human and Environment
- Body, Mind and Society
- Death
- Britain in the 20th Century
- Inventing Rights
- Employability, Purpose and Social Impact (Discovery module)
- Global Challenges and Collaborative Solutions (Discovery module)
- Taking an Idea and Making it Happen (Discovery module)
- Work Based Learning Year
- The Use and Abuse of History
- History Dissertation
- A Global History of the Cold War
- Advertising and Consumerism in Britain, 1853-1960
- Big Data and Dead People: Digital Histories of Crime, Justice and Punishment, 1760-1925
- Dangerous Thoughts': Soviet Dissent, Human Rights and the Cold War
- Fascism, Revolution and War in Spain: The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
- Forging India: South Asia from Empire to Nation, 1829-1964
- From Balfour to Brexit: Britain as a Great Power since 1914
- From Rebellion to Revolution: The War for the Throne, 1199-1265
- Gender Identities in the People's War: Experiences, Representations and Memories
- Intelligent Design? Science, Religion and the Idea of Design in Nature, 1450-1800
- Paradise Lost: Colonisation and the Jamaican Environment, 1655-1838
- Participation, Splendour and Violence: The Italian City-States, c.1100-1350
- Victorian Bodies: Sex, Gender, Race and Power in Global Britain
- Queer Futures (Discovery module)
- People Power and Collective Action (Discovery module)
- Confronting the Climate Crisis (Discovery module)
- Artistic Fusions (Discovery module)
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA History (Placement Year) at Lancaster 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 £25,500 and £35,500. The £29,500 median after five years is £1,000 less than the UK median for History.
What do graduates of BA History (Placement Year) at Lancaster University do next?
88% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA History (Placement Year) at Lancaster University?
93% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA History (Placement Year) at Lancaster University?
The typical offer is AAB at A level, or 35 points in the IB. The average entrant had 131 UCAS points.
What is the offer rate for BA History (Placement Year) at Lancaster University?
95% of home applicants received an offer for 2022 entry: 19 offers from 20 applications, according to the university's Freedom of Information return.
Does BA History (Placement Year) at Lancaster University include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has a compulsory placement year.
How many students continue on BA History (Placement Year) at Lancaster University?
100% of students continued into their second year, and 0% left higher education.