English with Integrated Foundation Year
Royal Holloway, University of London
About this course
English with Integrated Foundation Year in English Language and Linguistics. Core topics include Research Methods and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The Foundation Year shares modules across Arts and Humanities departments, with students progressing to BA English upon completion. Over 40 optional modules span medieval to contemporary literature, and a third-year dissertation allows independent research on a specialist topic.
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Entry requirements
A level: CCC-CCD (Required subjects: An Essay based subject We require English Language and Mathematics GCSE at grade 4 (C) T-levels We accept T-levels for admission to our undergraduate courses, with the following grades regarded as equivalent to our standard A-level requirements: AAA* – Distinction (A* on the core and distinction in the occupational specialism) AAA – Distinction BBB – Merit CCC – Pass (C or above on the core) DDD – Pass (D or E on the core) Where a course specifies subject-specific requirements at A-level, T-level applicants are likely to be asked to offer this A-level alongside their T-level studies.) IB: 24 points overall Including Grade 4 in a HL essay-based subject
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What students say
Based on about 148 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Teaching on my course: 95%
- Learning opportunities: 89%
- Assessment and feedback: 90%
- Academic support: 92%
- Organisation and management: 90%
- Learning resources: 89%
- Student voice: 83%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 180 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- Continued on course: 92%
- Left higher education: 8%
What graduates do next
Based on about 32 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Working: 59%
- Working and studying: 12%
- Further study: 14%
- Unemployed: 10%
Most common jobs
- Business and public service associate professionals: 15%
- Teaching Professionals: 15%
- Elementary occupations: 10%
- Teaching and Childcare Support Occupation: 10%
- Secretarial and related occupations: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 90%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 40%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 50%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 190 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 3%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 2%
- East Midlands: 1%
- West Midlands: 1%
- East of England: 13%
- London: 38%
- South East: 31%
- South West: 8%
- Wales: 2%
- Scotland: 2%
Who gets in
Based on about 165 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- A levels: 95%
- Baccalaureate: 3%
- Other HE qualification: 3%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Silver for student experience, Silver for student outcomes.
Modules
- Cultures of Thinking
- Culture and Memory
- Society on Screen
- Textual Cultures
- Foundation Year English
- Encountering Medieval Literature: From Beowulf to Chaucer
- Critical Foundations: Thinking As A Critic
- Literature and Crisis
- Shakespeare
- Reorienting the Novel
- Introduction to Poetry
- Middle English Poetry
- Medieval Dream and Vision
- Strange Fictions: Romance in the Middle Ages
- Renaissance Literature
- Intensive Shakespeare: Comedy, History, Tragedy
- Drama and Witchcraft
- Early Modern Bodies
- Literature after the Conquest: 1066-1340
- Victorian Literature
- Romanticisms
- Creative Writing: Structure and Style
- Literature of the Fin de Siècle, 1883-1903
- Contemporary Debates in Literary and Critical Theory
- Modernisms
- Literature and the Digital
- Ideas in Contemporary Fiction
- On Murder
- Advanced Shakespeare: The Problem Plays
- Literature and Philosophy
- Brexit, Literature and Discipline of English
- James Joyce: Revolutions of the Word
- Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Reading Like a Victorian
- First World War Literature
- The Girl in the Book
- Children's Literature
- The Post-Colonial Novel
- Poetic Practice
- Violence, Sex and Magic in Medieval Literature
- Visual and Verbal in the Long Nineteenth Century
- The New York Schools: Poetry, Painting, Composition
- Literature, the Digital and the Creative Industries
- The 1930s British Fiction and the Road to War
- Special Author: Chaucer
- Special Author: Charles Dickens
- Special Author: Herman Melville
- Reading the Waste Land
- Creative Writing Special Focus (Term 1)
- English Dissertation
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of English with Integrated Foundation Year at Royal Holloway, University of London earn?
The median salary is £26,000 after 15 months, £24,500 after 3 years, £30,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £24,000 and £37,000. The £30,500 median after five years is £2,500 more than the UK median for English language.
What do graduates of English with Integrated Foundation Year at Royal Holloway, University of London do next?
85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on English with Integrated Foundation Year at Royal Holloway, University of London?
95% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for English with Integrated Foundation Year at Royal Holloway, University of London?
The typical offer is CCC at A level, or 24 points in the IB. The average entrant had 122 UCAS points.
Does English with Integrated Foundation Year at Royal Holloway, University of London include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has an optional placement year and an optional year abroad.
How many students continue on English with Integrated Foundation Year at Royal Holloway, University of London?
92% of students continued into their second year, and 8% left higher education.