Classical Archaeology and Ancient History BA

University of Oxford · honours · 3 years · UCAS 7596course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £32,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£32,000

median, based on 385 graduates · half earned £25,500–£46,000 · Discover Uni (LEO)

Year 13 · applying

What do you need to get in?

Entry requirements for this course are not yet on file; see the university’s course page.

Oxford course page, read 19 September 2026 · Discover Uni entry profile

Who actually got in: 100% with A levels. 15% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 25 entrants.

UCAS tariff points — a points scale for grades: A* = 56, A = 48, so A*A*A = 160. Entrants’ totals include extra subjects.

After graduating

Where does it lead?

£32,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£26k
Median£32k
Upper quarter£46k

Median — the middle earner: half earned more, half less. Pay is for graduates of this subject at this university who finished in 2016-18, not adjusted for inflation; based on 385 graduates.

Discover Uni dataset (HESA and Office for Students, CC BY 4.0, contains HESA data); earnings from the Longitudinal Education Outcomes data (Department for Education) · aggregation level 24, 14, 12, 22

Half of graduates earned between £25,500 and £46,000. Five years on, the median is £44,000. 75% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 60% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 10% left100%25
In work or study, 15 months on30% studying75%30
Professional or managerial job60%10
Pay 15 months on, median£30,00060
Pay 3 years on, median£32,000385
Pay 5 years on, median£44,000435
Money

What does it cost?

Fees not on file; see the university’s fees page.

Oxford fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

94%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 69% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 20 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 1; lowest: 33% on question 25.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 1100%
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Question 689%
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Question 1489%
Question 15100%
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Question 2533%
Question 2694%

Question texts are published by the Office for Students; the dataset carries only the question numbers.

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