Classics degrees

395 courses at 26 UK universities offer classics for 2027 entry: most ask for between 120 and 126 UCAS points; 138 courses quote A-level grades instead, most often AAA.

Qualifications MA (Hons) 207, BA (Hons) 182, BA 5, DipHE 1
Study full-time 391, part-time 4

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Often studied with

Joint honours courses pairing classics with another subject.

• Italian studies 39
• French studies 37
• Persian languages 29
• Spanish studies 28
• Arabic languages 24
• English studies 18
• Russian studies 17
• archaeology 15
• philosophy 14
• history 14

Course codes

What these courses' UCAS codes start with.

• Q8 classical studies 60
• V1 history by period 20
• T1 Chinese studies 14
• R1 French 11
• Q7 classical Greek 10
• Q6 Latin 5
• R3 Italian 5
• Q2 comparative literature 4

Universities

• University of St Andrews 143
• University of Glasgow 56
• University of Oxford 42
• University of Exeter 30
• University of Liverpool 23
• Swansea University 16
• UCL (University College London) 10
• University of Reading 9
• University of Warwick 9
• The University of Edinburgh 8
• Durham University 7
• Royal Holloway, University of London 7
• University of Nottingham 5
• University of Leeds 4
• Newcastle University 3
• Open University 3
• University of Bristol 3
• University of Leicester 3
• Birkbeck, University of London 2
• King's College London, University of London 2
• University of Birmingham 2
• University of Cambridge 2
• University of Manchester 2
• University of Winchester 2
• University of Kent 1
• University of Lincoln 1

Courses