History and Politics of the Americas with a Year Abroad BA

University College London · honours · 4 years · year abroad · UCAS 9168course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £33,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£33,500

median, based on 20 graduates · half earned £27,500–£46,500 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 85% with A levels, 15% with the IB. 10% 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?

£33,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£28k
Median£34k
Upper quarter£47k

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 20 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 13, 14, 23

Half of graduates earned between £27,500 and £46,500. Five years on, the median is £48,000. 85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 85% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 15% left95%30
In work or study, 15 months on5% studying85%40
Professional or managerial job85%25
Pay 15 months on, median£32,00015
Pay 3 years on, median£33,50020
Pay 5 years on, median£48,00020
Money

What does it cost?

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

UCL fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

72%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 82% 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 20; lowest: 50% on question 13.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 194%
Question 278%
Question 378%
Question 478%
Question 589%
Question 694%
Question 783%
Question 867%
Question 983%
Question 1094%
Question 1183%
Question 1289%
Question 1350%
Question 1467%
Question 1589%
Question 1683%
Question 1778%
Question 1871%
Question 1978%
Question 20100%
Question 2194%
Question 2294%
Question 2383%
Question 2461%
Question 2578%
Question 2672%

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

Modules, entry requirements and fees are facts read from University College London’s course page on 2026-09-19 and may change; the university’s page is authoritative. Descriptions are not reproduced. Outcome figures are from the Discover Uni dataset. University College London is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.