Politics and History

About this course

Politics and history are disciplines that illuminate each other: politics cannot be fully understood without knowing how current institutions, conflicts and power arrangements came to be, and history without attention to political structures and ideologies risks becoming a sequence of disconnected events. Together, they develop the analytical rigour to understand how decisions are made and power exercised in the present, alongside the historical depth to trace how those patterns have emerged over time. The combination is particularly powerful for understanding political change, the formation of states, the dynamics of empire and decolonisation, and the ways in which historical memory shapes contemporary politics. At the School of Oriental and African Studies, this three-year full-time programme, which includes a foundation year, offers a combination shaped by SOAS's distinctive focus on

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 70% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 8% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 20% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 8% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 29% of graduatescards →
• 45 / 100Media Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →

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