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Deepen your passion for History at one of the UK’s Top 10 History departments (The Times Good University Guide 2021 and QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021), offering a combination of fantastic teaching, world-leading research and a lively and diverse community of postgraduate Historians.

• We’re home to over 40 academics with unrivalled expertise in historical topics spanning the globe, and we're working with around 70 PhD researchers and about 35 History MA students.
• Top 10 department in the UK with 92% of our research rated as world-leading or internationally excellent (REF 2021)
• Students gave the department a 89% satisfaction rating in the 2023 national Postgraduate Research Experience Survey. This was one of the highest scores in the Arts Faculty for a large Department, and 5% higher than both the Russell Group and Global average.
• Excellent historical resources, including our very own Modern Records Centre, which houses one of the biggest archives of primary sources outside of London.
• Four field-leading Research Centres offering opportunities for networking and sharing research, as well as leading our four History Masters courses.
• Ours is one of the most diverse communities of history postgraduates in the UK, with around a third of non-white students, and numbers of male and female students are roughly equal.

• We have an excellent track-record in placing postgraduates in academic and non-academic careersLink opens in a new window.

The University are currently offering a offering a 10% tuition fee discount for graduates of Warwick accepted onto selected full-time and part-time postgraduate masters level courses. Full full details and eligibility, please see: https://warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/funding/fees/discountLink opens in a new window

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