Prospective students: undergraduate

As a history undergraduate at UCL, you'll have access to a department of historians all working at the cutting edge of their fields.

Everyone teaches, and everyone wants to teach you. All of your seminars will be in groups of 15 or fewer (10 or fewer in your final year special subject classes). And every single piece of work you do for us, including exam papers, will be returned to you in a one-to-one tutorial with the person who taught you.

Not all history departments can make these promises.

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Our programmes

We teach four undergraduate programmes at UCL History. The BAs in Ancient History and History are three-year courses. History with a European Language and History with a Year Abroad will take you four years of full-time study to complete. Select from the list below to visit the UCL prospectus pages and find out more about each of the options we offer.

History

Ancient History

History with a European Language

History with a Year Abroad

Open days

The best way to find out more and answer any questions that you have about the course or the university is to attend an open day. For details of UCL’s pre-application open days please click here. Starting in March, we will be running a variety of online virtual open days for offer holders. These will include taster seminars, Q&A sessions with academics and students, and other remote activities. Offer holders will be contacted in advance about these events by email.

Whether you are thinking of applying or already hold an offer please do explore our website for further information on all the modules currently on offer. You can find module details for the BA History degree here and for BA Ancient History here. If you are interested in our History with a Year Abroad degree, please click here, and for BA History with a European Language please see here.

Student views

Throughout my degree, I've had the opportunity to study history from a far broader geographical and thematic range of topics than I ever anticipated, which has ignited my intellectual curiosity and greatly furthered my insight into issues around the world. The level of free choice that I've experienced from the very beginning of my degree with regards to modules has given me the opportunity to think independently about my options and interests and take an active role in my learning.
Shona Taylor, History BA (third year)

In your first year at UCL, you will study courses entitled 'Writing History' and 'Making History.' Writing History will not only nurture the articulation of your ideas on paper but also give you the capacity to think critically about your own writing. I particularly enjoyed Making History as I worked with a group of my friends on the relationship between religion and politics in medieval London. Making History will get you out of the department to explore some of the most interesting historical sources and artefacts that London has to offer. In other words, at UCL you will not just be 'reading history' but you will also be 'doing history'.
Nick Leah, History BA (second year)