Arabic and History MA

University of Edinburgh · honours · 4 years · year abroad · UCAS 3281course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £28,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£28,000

median, based on 205 graduates · half earned £23,500–£33,500 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 75% with A levels, 10% with the IB, 10% via Access courses. 10% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 20 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?

£28,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£24k
Median£28k
Upper quarter£34k

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 205 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, 22, 23

Half of graduates earned between £23,500 and £33,500. Five years on, the median is £36,500.

All outcome figures4
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 15% left95%20
Pay 3 years on, median£28,000205
Pay 5 years on, median£36,500225
Money

What does it cost?

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

Edinburgh fees page

National Student Survey 2024-26

What do students say?

67%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 60% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 40 students answered

Highest: 96% agreed on question 1; lowest: 59% on question 24.

All questions26
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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 Edinburgh’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 Edinburgh is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.