History with Integrated Foundation Year
Royal Holloway, University of London
About this course
History with Integrated Foundation Year, a four-year undergraduate programme beginning with a preparatory foundation year before progression to History honours. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The Foundation Year includes a Department Based Project that can be taken in another Humanities department, with flexibility to transfer to a single or joint honours pathway on completion. An Independent Research Project supervised by a Further Subject tutor leads to a final-year Dissertation.
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Entry requirements
A level: CCC-CCD (Required subjects: 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.
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What students say
Based on about 116 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Teaching on my course: 94%
- Learning opportunities: 89%
- Assessment and feedback: 89%
- Academic support: 98%
- Organisation and management: 91%
- Learning resources: 96%
- Student voice: 83%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 170 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- Continued on course: 88%
- Left higher education: 12%
What graduates do next
Based on about 31 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Working: 60%
- Working and studying: 11%
- Further study: 13%
- Unemployed: 7%
Most common jobs
- Elementary occupations: 20%
- Administrative occupations: 15%
- Business and public service associate professionals: 10%
- Teaching Professionals: 10%
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 75%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 45%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 25%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 275 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 1%
- North West: 1%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 2%
- East Midlands: 1%
- West Midlands: 3%
- East of England: 12%
- London: 33%
- South East: 37%
- South West: 7%
- Wales: 2%
Who gets in
Based on about 135 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- A levels: 97%
- Baccalaureate: 2%
- Other HE qualification: 1%
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
- History in the Making
- Gods, Men and Power: An Introduction to the Ancient World, from Homer to Mohammed
- Republics, Kings and People: The Foundations of European Political Thought from Plato to Rousseau
- Rome to Renaissance: An Introduction to the Middle Ages
- From Renaissance to Revolutions: Europe and the World, 1500-1800
- Conflict and Identity in Modern Europe, c. 1770 to 2000
- From Mao to Bin Laden: Twentieth-Century Leaders in the Non-Western World
- Independent Research Project
- Introduction to Digital History
- Centre of the Universe: Science from Antiquity to the early Middle Ages
- She-Wolves: Female Royal Power across the Medieval World, c.1000-1400
- The Holy Man: Sanctity and the Sacred in Historical Research
- The British and the World: 1763-1900
- The Decline and Fall of Britain’s Global Empire, 1899-1997
- Apocalypse Postponed: The Global Cold War 1945-98
- Refugees in the 20th Century: A Global History
- Global Challenges: Historical Perspectives on the 21st century world
- Byzantine Twilight, 1200-1460
- The Ottomans: The Muslim Empire in the Early Modern World, 1453-1789
- The Greek World from the Fall of Byzantium to the Rise of Nationalism, 1453-1910
- The Making of the Modern Middle East, 1789-1939
- Awakening China: From the Opium Wars to the Present Day
- Mutiny to Modi: the Indian subcontinent from the C19th to the present
- Spanish and Portuguese Empires in the Americas, 1450-1650
- An Empire of Liberty? History of the USA 1787-1877
- The United States in the Twentieth Century
- American Economic Hegemony: Its Rise and Fall, 1941-2012
- The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic
- Virtue and Power: Political Thought from Cicero to Machiavelli
- Rome and its Empire from Augustus to Commodus
- The Birth of Europe, 400-900
- Life and Death in the Medieval World
- The Tudor Monarchy 1485-1603
- Killing the King: England in an Age of Revolution, 1603-1714
- Gorgeous Georgians?: Society, Culture and Crime, 1714-1830
- The Shock of the New: European Culture and Society 1789-1905
- Vice, Virtue and the Victorians: British History 1837-1901
- Italy from Unification to the Present
- The Dark Continent: Europe, 1914-1948
- Safe European Home? Europe 1945-2000
- Community, Culture and Conflict in Twentieth-Century Britain
- Further Latin for Historians
- Medicine in the Ancient, Medieval and Islamic World
- Entangled Histories: The Interconnected Atlantic World, 1500-1800
- Modern Political Ideas
- Histories of Humanitarianism, From the 1880s to the Present
- Genocide: A Global History
- From Mussolini to Trump: Nationalism, Far Right and Identity Politics in Europe and America, 1919-2016
- Byzantium and its Neighbours, 641-1081
- Holy Warriors: Crusaders, Muslims and the Struggle for Jerusalem, 1095-1244
- Justice, Power and Religion in the Muslim World
- 'Dragon Ladies'? Society, Politics and Gender in Modern China
- Despots and Mullahs: Development and Popular Resistance in the Muslim World, 1910-1980
- The Vietnam War and the Cold War in Southeast Asia
- From Pardah to Parliament: Women and Politics in Modern Muslim Societies
- Martin Luther King Jr and the Black Freedom Struggle
- Reagan’s America: Reaganomics, Cold War & Social Conservatism, 1967-93
- Grand Designs: Art, Architecture and Power in the Roman World
- The Later Roman Empire
- Feast, Fast, and Famine: Eating and Living in the Middle Ages, c.1000-1500
- Tudor Queenship: Mary I and Elizabeth I, 1553-1603
- Sex, Society and Identity in Britain, c. 1660-1815
- Children of the Revolution? France from 1789 to the Great War
- The Empire Strikes Back? Imagining and Remembering the British Empire
- Beaches and Bodies: Migration and Mobility in the Mediterranean, 1800 to the present
- People and Things in Victorian London
- The Pursuit of Power: the Russian Empire in the Age of Reform and Revolution
- Modern Girls: Women in Twentieth-Century Britain
- Borderlands: Coexistence and Conflict, Democracy and Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe, 1912-1945
- Waging Armageddon: WW1 in British Experience and Memory
- Historians on History: Why Historiography Matters
- Concepts in History
- Dissertation
- Explorers and Inventors in Classical and Late Antiquity
- 'With Intent to Destroy': Genocide in the Modern World
- The Death of God: From the Enlightenment to Psychoanalysis
- The Bomb - A History: Atomic Weaponry and Society in the 20th Century
- The Curse of Aid: International Development 1940-2000
- A Clash of Powers: The United States, China and the Cold War
- The Age of Terror: Terrorism from 1945 - Present
- Saladin, Richard the Lionheart and the Third Crusade
- The City and the Conqueror: The Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- China and the World: Migrations and Frontiers, 1800-1960
- Drawing the Line: Independence, Partition, and the Making of India and Pakistan
- A Nation Torn Asunder: Civil War America
- Malcolm X: Islam and Black Protest in America
- Villa, Domus and Palace: Domestic Space and Social Identity in the Roman World
- Christians and Pagans from Constantine to Augustine (AD 306-430)
- Reformers and Revolutionaries: Monasteries and Society in Europe, c.1050 – 1150
- Representations of Rule: Authority and Image from Henry VII to Charles II 1485-1660
- Colonial Missions in the Age of the British Empire
- Britain on Camera: Photography, Film and Society, 1840-1965
- The Origins of Environmentalism: Critics of Modernity in Britain
- From Inverts to Perverts: Queer Life and Identity in Modern Britain
- Europe, 1900: Cultures of Conflict and the Shock of the New
- Visions of Europe: Political and Intellectual Readings of European Integration from the Interwar years to the Present
- The Holocaust Witness: Personal Histories of Survival and Resilience
- The Holocaust
- Out On The Town: Leisure and Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century Urban Britain
- The Age of Thatcher? Politics, Identities and Cultures in Britain, c.1970-2000
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of History with Integrated Foundation Year at Royal Holloway, University of London earn?
The median salary is £27,000 after 15 months, £25,500 after 3 years, £31,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £25,000 and £40,000. The £31,000 median after five years is £500 more than the UK median for History.
What do graduates of History 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 History with Integrated Foundation Year at Royal Holloway, University of London?
94% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for History 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 121 UCAS points.
Does History 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 History with Integrated Foundation Year at Royal Holloway, University of London?
88% of students continued into their second year, and 12% left higher education.