History degrees compared with official data
1,561 courses at 105 universities, every page shows entry standards, graduate earnings, satisfaction scores and fees.
Top History courses
Ordered by the arithmetic mean of the official measures published for each course, NSS satisfaction, graduate activity and continuation. Official data only; no commercial league-table input. Two of the three measures are published rounded to the nearest 5 percentage points, so courses are grouped into bands against the whole board instead of scored out of 10, and courses whose measures are identical are listed alphabetically.
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What History graduates earn
What History graduates actually earn, from real outcome data — 15 months, 3 years and 5 years after graduating.
National figures for History graduates — HESA Graduate Outcomes (15 months) and the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset (3 & 5 years). These are national, not university-specific; actual pay varies by employer, region, role and experience. Different cohorts, so the bars are not one group over time.
Roles & employers
Where History graduates typically go.
Typical roles
- Archivist
- Heritage officer
- Researcher
- Teacher
- Communications roles
Where they work
- Museums & archives
- Heritage bodies
- Schools
- Civil service & media
Every university offering History
Course counts link to each university’s full profile.
- University of St Andrews (204)
- University of Glasgow (188)
- The University of Essex (66)
- University of Edinburgh (51)
- SOAS University of London (39)
- Liverpool Hope University (34)
- Oxford University (34)
- University of the Highlands and Islands (32)
- Birkbeck, University of London (32)
- University of East Anglia (32)
- Swansea University (30)
- University of Aberdeen (30)
- University of Reading (27)
- University of Exeter (26)
- UCL (26)
- Oxford Brookes University (24)
- University of Wales Trinity Saint David (23)
- University of Southampton (23)
- University of Warwick (21)
- Royal Holloway, University of London (21)
- University of Manchester (19)
- University of Leicester (19)
- Aberystwyth University (19)
- University of Nottingham (18)
- Nottingham Trent University (18)
- Durham University (16)
- Goldsmiths, University of London (16)
- University of Birmingham (15)
- University of York (15)
- University of Winchester (15)
- University of Stirling (14)
- York St John University (12)
- The University of Kent (12)
- University of Wolverhampton (12)
- University of Leeds (12)
- Manchester Metropolitan University (12)
- University of Lancashire (11)
- Teesside University (11)
- Bath Spa University (11)
- University of Greenwich (11)
- Anglia Ruskin University (10)
- The Open University (10)
- Brunel University of London (10)
- University of Chester (10)
- Bangor University (10)
- Lincoln Bishop University (10)
- Keele University (9)
- Lancaster University (9)
- University of Sussex (8)
- Ulster University (8)
- The University of Liverpool (8)
- University of Sheffield (8)
- Newcastle University (8)
- Coventry University (8)
- Queen Mary University of London (8)
- University of Dundee (8)
- De Montfort University (8)
- University of Strathclyde (7)
- University of Derby (7)
- University of Cambridge (7)
- Edge Hill University (6)
- Leeds Beckett University (6)
- Loughborough University (6)
- University of Lincoln (6)
- University of Northumbria at Newcastle (6)
- University of Hull (6)
- Cardiff University (6)
- Bournemouth University (6)
- University of Staffordshire (6)
- University of Bristol (6)
- The University of Westminster (5)
- Liverpool John Moores University (4)
- University of Worcester (4)
- UWE Bristol (4)
- Canterbury Christ Church University (4)
- The University of Northampton (3)
- University of South Wales/Prifysgol De Cymru (3)
- Aston University (3)
- University of Buckingham (3)
- The London School of Economics and Political Science (3)
- Falmouth University (3)
- University of Chichester (3)
- The University of Salford (2)
- South Gloucestershire and Stroud College (2)
- University of Hertfordshire (2)
- University Centre Peterborough (2)
- Sheffield Hallam University (2)
- University of Brighton (2)
- Birmingham Newman University (2)
- University of Huddersfield (2)
- University of Portsmouth (2)
- Leeds Conservatoire (2)
- The University of West London (2)
- London South Bank University (2)
- University of Plymouth (2)
- Roehampton University (2)
- University of Gloucestershire (1)
- University of Suffolk (1)
- Stoke On Trent College (1)
- Glasgow Caledonian University (1)
- Robert Gordon University (1)
- University of London institute in Paris (1)
- Abertay University (1)
- Richmond, The American International University in London (1)
- Farnborough College of Technology (1)
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