History with Modern Languages BA

University of Cambridge · honours · 4 years · optional placement year · year abroad · UCAS 7213, 7228, 7240, 8055, 8307, 9439, 0922, 1451, 1721, 1728, 2493, 2555, 2854, 4360, 4932, 5118, 0152, 0153, 0205, 0435, 0449, 0883, 5448, 5759, 6007, 6180, 6740, 6937, 7064, 7201course page ↗

A*AA at A level, History; graduates earn a median £30,000 three years on.

Typical A level offer
A*AA

History · 90% of entrants came with A levels · 100% stay on after year 1 · Cambridge course page, Discover Uni

Year 13 · applying

What do you need to get in?

A*AAtypical A level offer; most entrants achieved at least a*a*a

Typical offer — the grades most applicants are asked for. A contextual offer can be lower for applicants from under-represented backgrounds; none is published for this course.

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

  1. 1History
  2. 2the language you want to study (if you will not be studying it from scratch)
Who actually got in: 90% with A levels, 5% with the IB. 40% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 35 entrants.

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

Other qualifications1
QualificationTypical offerRequired subjects
IB41-42 points, with 776 at Higher LevelHistory; the language you want to study (if you will not be studying it from scratch)
After graduating

Where does it lead?

£30,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£25k
Median£30k
Upper quarter£39k

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 360 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 14, 11, 21

Half of graduates earned between £25,000 and £38,500. Five years on, the median is £39,500. 85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 90% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 10% left100%30
In work or study, 15 months on0% studying85%15
Professional or managerial job90%15
Pay 15 months on, median£30,00085
Pay 3 years on, median£30,000360
Pay 5 years on, median£39,500415
Money

What does it cost?

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

Cambridge fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

87%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 52% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 15 students answered

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

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 1100%
Question 2100%
Question 3100%
Question 4100%
Question 593%
Question 680%
Question 793%
Question 880%
Question 9100%
Question 1060%
Question 1187%
Question 1267%
Question 1393%
Question 14100%
Question 15100%
Question 16100%
Question 1747%
Question 1893%
Question 19100%
Question 20100%
Question 21100%
Question 2287%
Question 2380%
Question 2447%
Question 2533%
Question 2687%

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 of Cambridge’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 of Cambridge is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.