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Fees and Funding
UK & EU Fee
£9,000 (2013/14)
Overseas Fee
£14,750 (2013/14)
General Funding Notes
Details about financial support are available at: www.ucl.ac.uk/study/ug-finance
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Ancient History and Egyptology BA
UCAS Code: VQ14
This three-year specialist degree enables you to study the history, culture and language of ancient Egypt in the wider framework of the history of the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern world from the early third millennium to the end of the first millennium BC.
Entry Requirements
A Levels
| Grades | A*AA-AAA |
|---|---|
| Subjects | History, Ancient History or Classical Civilisation required. |
| AS Levels | A pass in a further subject at AS level or equivalent is required. |
| GCSEs | English Language and Mathematics at grade C; Ancient European Language at grade B also welcomed. For UK-based students a foreign language at grade B is required. |
IB Diploma
| Points | 38-39 |
|---|---|
| Subjects | A score of 18-19 points in three higher level subjects including grade 6 in History, with no score lower than 5. A minimum of 5 is required at standard level in a modern or ancient European language. |
Other Qualifications
For entry requirements with other UK qualifications accepted by UCL, choose your qualification from the list below:
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International Qualifications
International Qualifications
In addition to A level and International Baccalaureate, UCL considers a wide range of international qualifications for entry to its undergraduate degree programmes.
University Preparatory Certificates
UCL offers intensive one-year foundation courses to prepare international students for a variety of degree programmes at UCL.
The University Preparatory Certificates (UPCs) are for international students of high academic potential who are aiming to gain access to undergraduate degree programmes at UCL and other top UK universities.
For more information see our website: www.ucl.ac.uk/upc
English Language Requirements
If English is not your first language you will also need to satisfy UCL's English Language Requirements. A variety of English language programmes are offered at the UCL Centre for Languages & International Education.
Degree Summary
Degree Benefits
- UCL is uniquely equipped to offer this degree, since a first-class Egyptology library and an important study collection of Egyptian antiquities (the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology) are housed here.
- The programme invites you to approach Egypt in three distinct ways: as an historian, as an archaeologist (through its material culture) and as a philologist (through its language).
- Drawing upon the History Department, related UCL departments and relevant University of London colleges, the programme offers a wide variety of options and an unrivalled range of ancient language courses.
- Exceptional resources, including the British Museum and British Library, are within walking distance, and other London-based museums and organisations provide unrivalled opportunities for accessing primary source material.
The programme includes six compulsory first-year courses, a research project of 5,000 words in the second year, a final-year special subject, a final-year dissertation and options chosen from a range of full-year and half-year courses.
All students learn the Egyptian language, hieroglyphic, demotic and coptic scripts, and the history of the peoples living on the banks of the Nile, the Euphrates and the Tigris, as well as their neighbours in Nubia, Anatolia and Iran.
When choosing optional courses in the second and third year, you can focus on languages, ancient history and/or archaeology.
The range of ancient languages available at UCL and related University of London colleges is unrivalled anywhere in the UK. You can, for example, learn Ancient Hebrew in the UCL Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies or Akkadian, Sumerian or Hittite at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
Your Learning
Many of our courses include lectures, but our approach to learning mainly places emphasis on active student participation in seminar discussion (usually in groups of 15). Essays you write will be returned to you in individual face-to-face tutorials to provide constructive, personal feedback.
Assessment
Your work will be assessed by a mixture of examinations and written coursework. Significant weight is given to an extended essay based on original sources produced in your final year.
Degree Structure
In each year of your degree you will take a number of individual courses, normally valued at 0.5 or 1.0 credits, adding up to a total of 4.0 credits for the year. Courses are assessed in the academic year in which they are taken. The balance of compulsory and optional courses varies from programme to programme and year to year. A 1.0 credit is considered equivalent to 15 credits in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).
Year One
Year Two
Final Year
Further details available on degree page of subject website:
Your Career
The programme is designed to teach many transferable skills: how to gather and organise evidence; how to analyse it and present a structured argument; how to express yourself clearly both in writing and orally.
UCL's history graduates have excelled in a wide range of occupations, as lawyers, financial advisers, stockbrokers, television producers, diplomats, journalists, bankers, teachers, museum curators, and in the health service, the police and overseas development programmes, as well as in progressing to further study.
Destinations
First destinations of recent graduates (2009-2011) of this programme include:
- Intern, Dorset County Museum (2011)
- Full-time student, Graduate Diploma in Law at the College of Law (2010)
- Full-time student, MA in Egyptian Archaeology at UCL (2009)
Find out more about London graduates' careers by visiting the Careers Group (University of London) website:
Application
Your Application
Each candidate's profile is considered as a complete picture, taking into account your interest in and suitability for the degree, as shown in your personal statement and referee's report, as well as achieved and predicted grades. Your ability to present an argument, evidence of intellectual curiosity and your enthusiasm for and commitment to studying history will also be assessed.
How to Apply
Application for admission should be made through UCAS (the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service). Applicants currently at school or college will be provided with advice on the process; however, applicants who have left school or who are based outside the United Kingdom may obtain information directly from UCAS.
Selection
Promising applicants will be asked to supply further information to help us in determining whether to offer a place.
We are keen to attract students from a wide range of backgrounds, finding this helps to maintain an intellectually and socially stimulating community. Applicants will normally have studied History; English or a language taken to a higher level is also an advantage.
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