BA Philosophy
About this course
BA (Hons) in Philosophy. Core topics include Research Methods, Ethics & Professional Practice, Historical Research, Project Management, and Communication & Writing. The degree spans ancient, early modern, and contemporary philosophy with modules on epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, and applied ethics. A supervised independent study project is completed in the final year.
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Entry requirements
A level: BCC to BBC IB: 29 points overall.
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What students say
Based on about 16 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 96%
- Learning opportunities: 92%
- Assessment and feedback: 83%
- Academic support: 98%
- Organisation and management: 83%
- Learning resources: 93%
- Student voice: 94%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 35 students who started
- Continued on course: 95%
- Left higher education: 5%
- Moved to a lower qualification: 5%
What graduates do next
Based on about 11 graduates who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 55%
- Working and studying: 25%
- Further study: 10%
- Unemployed: 15%
Most common jobs
- Administrative occupations: 30%
- Sales occupations: 20%
- Welfare and housing associate professionals: 15%
- Teaching Professionals: 5%
- Skilled trades occupations: 5%
- Find their work meaningful: 65%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 35%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 35%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 160 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 2%
- North West: 4%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 19%
- East Midlands: 33%
- West Midlands: 4%
- East of England: 21%
- London: 7%
- South East: 6%
- South West: 2%
- Wales: 2%
Who gets in
Based on about 25 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 90%
- Other HE qualification: 15%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Gold overall, Gold for student experience, Gold for student outcomes.
Modules
- Great Thinkers in Philosophy from Classical to Modern Times
- Humanities in a Digital World
- Introduction to Moral Philosophy
- Introduction to Philosophical Logic
- Mind and Reality
- Philosophical Texts
- What is Knowledge?
- God, Evil, and the Meaning of life
- Just Space: Building Equity and Inclusion
- Designing your Independent Study
- Humanities in Action
- Age Of Extremes: Fascists And Dictators
- Accessing Ordinary Lives: Interpreting and Understanding Voices from the Past, 1880 – present
- Aesthetics
- American Literature I
- Ancient Philosophy L5
- Applied Ethics Level 5
- Classical Indian Philosophy L5
- Clio’s Children: How Greeks Wrote History
- Decolonising the Past
- Early Modern Philosophy L5
- Elementary Greek I: Archē, Beginnings
- Elementary Greek II: Logos, Structure
- Emotions and Perceptions L5
- Environmental Philosophy
- Ethics and the Meaning of Life
- Existentialism and Phenomenology
- From King Alfred to the Anarchy: Society, Politics and State-building in England, 871-1153
- Images of the self: modernity and the portrait
- Imperial Worlds, Colonial Lives
- Industry Placement
- Latin I: Veni, Vidi, Latin (Second Year)
- Latin II: Iter Romanum
- Making and Meaning; History through Objects
- Medieval Literature
- Metaphysics L5
- Minds and Machines
- Moral Philosophy
- Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Death of God
- Paradoxes L5
- Philosophy of AI L5
- Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Perversion
- Philosophy of Music
- Philosophy of Psychiatry and Mental Illness
- Philosophy of Science
- Playing the Past: History and Videogames
- Power and the Presidency in the United States
- Queering the Past
- Renaissance Literature
- Sport and Society in the Modern World
- Study Period Abroad: History
- Teaching History: designing and delivering learning in theory and practice
- The Arthurian Myth
- The Philosophy of Language L5
- The Philosophy of Time L5
- The World of the Crusades
- Thought Experiments
- Topics in Epistemology
- Vice and the Victorians: The Underbelly of Victorian Britain
- Victorian Worlds: Literature 1830-1914
- Philosophical Project
- Aesthetics L6
- Air War and Society from Zeppelins to the Bomb
- Ancient Philosophy
- Applied Ethics
- Chivalry in Medieval Europe
- Classical Indian Philosophy
- Clio’s Children: How Greeks Wrote History
- Consuming Societies: Western Europe 1600-1800
- Curatorial Practice
- Early Modern Philosophy L6
- Elementary Greek I: Archē, Beginnings (Third Year)
- Elementary Greek II: Logos, Structure (Third Year)
- Elementary Latin II (Third Year)
- Emotions and Perceptions L6
- Environmental Philosophy
- Eugenics, Race and Reproduction across the Atlantic, 1800-1945
- Exhibiting the World in the Nineteenth Century
- Existentialism and Phenomenology
- Fallout Nation: The United States and the Nuclear Age
- Humanities Work Placement
- Latin I: Veni, Vidi, Latin (Third Year)
- Medicalised Bodies in Art and Visual Culture, c. 1900 to the Present
- Men, Sex and Work: Sexuality and Gender in
- Metaethics
- Metaphysics L6
- Minds and Machines L6
- Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Death of God
- Objects of Empire: the material worlds of British colonialism
- Paradoxes L6
- Philosophy of AI L6
- Philosophy of Evil
- Philosophy of Love, Sex and Perversion
- Philosophy of Music
- Philosophy of Psychiatry and Mental Illness
- Philosophy of Science
- Queering the Past - Level 3
- Revolutionary Ideas in Tudor and Stuart Britain: Republicanism, Regicide and Liberty
- Teaching History: designing and delivering learning in theory and practice - level 3
- The City and the Citizen: urban space and the shaping of modern life, 1850 to present.
- The Internet: A Social and Cultural History
- The Philosophy of Language L6
- The Philosophy of Time L6
- The US Civil Rights Movement
- Thought Experiments
- Topics in Epistemology L6
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Philosophy at University of Lincoln earn?
The median salary is £25,000 after 15 months, £21,000 after 3 years, £25,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £21,500 and £31,500. The £25,500 median after five years is £7,000 less than the UK median for Philosophy.
What do graduates of BA Philosophy at University of Lincoln do next?
85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Philosophy at University of Lincoln?
96% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Philosophy at University of Lincoln?
The typical offer is BCC at A level, or 29 points in the IB. The average entrant had 100 UCAS points.
Does BA Philosophy at University of Lincoln include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has an optional placement year.
How many students continue on BA Philosophy at University of Lincoln?
95% of students continued into their second year, and 5% left higher education.