BA Archaeology and History / Overview

Year of entry: 2024

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Degree awarded: Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Duration: 3 years
Typical A-level offer: AAA including A in History
Typical contextual A-level offer: AAB, including A in History.

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Refugee/care-experienced offer: Applicants who have been in local authority care for more than three months or have refugee status may be eligible for an offer two grades below the standard requirements.

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Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 36 points overall. 6,6,6 in Higher Level subjects (including History).; Full entry requirements
How to apply: Apply through UCAS .

Course overview

Study past cultures through the texts that framed their lives, and the landscapes, architecture and objects they made or inhabited.
Combine the best of both worlds: training in critical historical source analysis with practical archaeological methods.
Study at an internationally renowned centre for social archaeology, working on sites of global importance such as Stonehenge, Star Carr and Easter Island.
Explore Mancunium, the city's own Roman fort, and discover the University's on-campus archaeological, ancient historical and ethnographic collections at Manchester Museum.

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Fees

Tuition fees for home students commencing their studies in September 2024 will be £9,250 per annum. Tuition fees for international students will be £25,500 per annum. For general information please see the undergraduate finance pages.

Policy on additional costs

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

Contact details

School/Faculty: School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Contact name: Katie Cowey
Telephone: +44 (0)161 306 1252
Email: ug-classics@manchester.ac.uk
Website: https://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/cahae/
School/Faculty overview: See: About us

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