History

About this course

History at Oxford is among the most rigorous and demanding undergraduate programmes available anywhere. The discipline asks how and why things happened in the past, how we know what we know about them, and what the past can tell us about the present. Historians work with primary sources, from manuscripts and legal records to diaries, newspapers, and material artefacts, evaluating evidence carefully and constructing well-reasoned accounts of human experience across time. The discipline demands close reading, precise writing, and the ability to hold complexity and uncertainty in mind. Oxford's three-year full-time history degree is shaped by the tutorial system, in which much of your learning happens through individual or small-group sessions with leading scholars in their fields. This means your intellectual development is personalised and demanding in ways that large-lecture programmes

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 46% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 11% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 6% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 16% of graduatescards →
• 45 / 100Media Professionals · 4% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Natural and social science professionals · 9% of graduatescards →

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