Are you a student from the UK interested in studying Ancient and Modern History but your personal or educational circumstances have meant you are unlikely to achieve the grades typically required for Oxford courses? If so, then Ancient and Modern History with Foundation Year might be the course for you.
The Foundation Year is completely free for UK students and is designed to be a one-year intensive academic course which will bridge any gap between school and our academically challenging undergraduate courses. The programme is carefully designed to build and develop your st...
Are you a student from the UK interested in studying Ancient and Modern History but your personal or educational circumstances have meant you are unlikely to achieve the grades typically required for Oxford courses? If so, then Ancient and Modern History with Foundation Year might be the course for you.<br/><br/>The Foundation Year is completely free for UK students and is designed to be a one-year intensive academic course which will bridge any gap between school and our academically challenging undergraduate courses. The programme is carefully designed to build and develop your study skills, subject knowledge and capacity for independent study. Students that pass the course will be awarded a nationally recognised Certificate in Higher Education (CertHE) qualification. If you pass the course at the required level, you will be automatically admitted into Oxford as an undergraduate student if you wish to be, without the need to re-apply. For more information on this course please visit www.ox.ac.uk/fyhumanities.<br/><br/>The Ancient and Modern History undergraduate course enables students to study history from the Bronze Age Mediterranean and Near East, through the Roman Empire, middle ages and early modern period, right up to British, European and World history in the present day. Fruitful comparisons between societies abound, and the methods by which we study them are mutually illuminating. For more information on this course please visit ox.ac.uk/ugham.<br/><br/>This course is for UK state school students who meet the eligibility criteria. For more information about the eligibility criteria please visit foundationyear.ox.ac.uk/eligibility.<br/><br/>International students are not eligible to apply.
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Course Details
Information
Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
4 Years
Start Date
05/10/2025
Campus
Open Application
29 January
Application deadline
Provider Details
Codes/info
Course Code
V11F
Institution Code
O33
Points of Entry
Foundation
Not Accepted
B,B,B,B,B
Supplemented by two or more Advanced Highers.
Conditional offers are likely to be for completion of the Access to HE diploma with all the level 3 credits at Merit, and B grades in any A-levels taken. Some Access courses allow students to take one or two A-levels as part of the course. This option is strongly recommended for students who wish to apply to Oxford, especially for those courses which have specific subject requirements.
35
With 555 at HL.
MMM
Conditional offers would usually be: Extended Diploma with MMM, Diploma with MM plus a B grade at A-level, Foundation Diploma with M plus BB at A-level.
B,B,C
B,B
Conditional offers will usually be for BBC if a student is able to take three Advanced Highers; where this is not possible then a student would be expected to achieve BB in two Advanced Highers.
M1,M1,M1
Pre-U subject requirements are the same as those for A-levels.
B,B,B
Excluding General Studies (if taken)
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