UCAS Code: LV71 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
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104
About this course
This course has alternative study modes. Contact the university to find out how the information below might vary.
Course option
3years
Full-time | 2024
Other options
6 years | Part-time | 2024
4 years | Full-time with time abroad | 2024
Subjects
History
Geography
Our joint honours course allows students to pursue their own areas of interest within Geography and History whilst also providing them with a solid foundation in both disciplines and a range of personal and professional skills which will serve as a springboard for their future career development. The programme is carefully designed to enable students to gradually develop their knowledge and skills and become autonomous, effective and independent learners.
Geography is the study of space, place, society and environment and the ways in which they interconnect. It encourages holistic thinking across social and natural sciences, arts and humanities. History is about far more than studying the past. It enables you to discover why people act the way they do and to explore how societies develop.
Links between research and undergraduate teaching are an important and distinctive feature of the programme, and the combined research experience and competencies of staff have shaped its design, content and delivery.
Tuition fees
Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:
England
£9,250
per year
International
£15,950
per year
Scotland
£9,250
per year
Wales
£9,250
per year
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The Uni
Course location:
Oxford Brookes University
Department:
Combined Studies
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What students say
We've crunched the numbers to see if overall student satisfaction here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.
82%
History
73%
Geography
How do students rate their degree experience?
The stats below relate to the general subject area/s at this university, not this specific course. We show this where there isn’t enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.
- History
- Geography (non-specific)
History
Teaching and learning
82%
Staff make the subject interesting
90%
Staff are good at explaining things
78%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
Assessment and feedback
Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices
Resources and organisation
74%
Library resources
90%
IT resources
84%
Course specific equipment and facilities
79%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly
Student voice
Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course
Who studies this subject and how do they get on?
96%
UK students
4%
International students
47%
Male students
53%
Female students
81%
2:1 or above
16%
First year drop out rate
Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)
C
B
C
Geography (non-specific)
Teaching and learning
68%
Staff make the subject interesting
83%
Staff are good at explaining things
80%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
58%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned
Assessment and feedback
Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices
Resources and organisation
70%
Library resources
86%
IT resources
85%
Course specific equipment and facilities
67%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly
Student voice
Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course
Who studies this subject and how do they get on?
94%
UK students
6%
International students
53%
Male students
47%
Female students
75%
2:1 or above
23%
First year drop out rate
Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)
B
C
C
After graduation
The stats in this section relate to the general subject area/s at this university – not this specific course. We show this where there isn't enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.
- History
- Geography
History
What are graduates doing after six months?
This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.
£20,000
med
Average annual salary
97%
high
Employed or in further education
55%
med
Employed in a role where degree was essential or beneficial
Top job areas of graduates
12%
Public services and other associate professionals
11%
Sales, marketing and related associate professionals
11%
Business, finance and related associate professionals
History is a very popular subject (although numbers have fallen of late) — in 2015, over 10,000 UK students graduated in a history-related course. Obviously, there aren't 11,000 jobs as historians available every year, but history is a good, flexible degree that allows graduates to go into a wide range of different jobs, and consequently history graduates have an unemployment rate comparable to the national graduate average. Many — probably most — jobs for graduates don't ask for a particular degree to go into them and history graduates are well set to take advantage. That's why so many go into jobs in the finance industry, human resources, marketing, PR and events management, as well as the more obvious roles in education, welfare and the arts. Around one in five history graduates went into further study last year. History and teaching were the most popular further study subjects for history graduates, but law, journalism, and politics were also popular postgraduate courses.
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This is usually because there were too few respondents in the data we receive to be able to provide results about the subject at this university.
What about your long term prospects?
Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.
- History
- Geography
History
The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.
£19k
£24k
£25k
Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.
Sorry, no information to show
This is usually because there were too few respondents in the data we receive to be able to provide results about the subject at this university.
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