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Classics and the Ancient World BA

UCAS code: Q805

Key information

Course type:
Single honours
Delivery mode:
Campus
Study mode:
Full time
Required A-level:
AAB
Full entry requirements, including contextual requirements
Duration:
Three years
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2025
Application deadline:
31 January 2024
Apply via UCAS

This BA in Classics and the Ancient World will empower you to take the burning questions of today and apply them to some of the most celebrated and debated cultures of ancient Europe, Asia, and North Africa. You’ll get to explore themes such as people versus elites, minority rights, sexual diversity and gender politics, empire and multiculturalism, ethnicity and race, religious identity and experience, consensus and conflict, art, philosophy, the meaning of justice, and much more. Thanks to a curriculum built entirely with multidisciplinary optional modules, you’ll be free to follow your own interests as you study Classics within the broader context of the ancient world, whether that’s through literature, philosophy, history, archaeology, global and social issues, politics, art, culture, and beyond. You don’t have to learn Ancient Greek and Latin during this Classics degree, but an optional accelerated language route is available. If you have previous Ancient Greek and Latin experience, you can also continue to develop this during your studies.

Key benefits

  • Classics at King’s ranked first in the UK for research excellence (REF 2021) and fourth for UK Classics Departments in the QS World Rankings 2024. This research excellence feeds into our teaching on the course.
  • You will be part of one of the largest Classics departments in the UK, with unique coverage from the Bronze Age to Modern Greece.
  • Our course combines focus and flexibility, allowing students to pursue their interests in a department renowned for the quality of it teaching and the student experience.
  • You can either study ancient sources in their translation or learn Ancient Greek and/or Latin with an accelerated three-year language route.
  • Our central London location offers the opportunity for collaboration with the British Museum and other cultural institutions, which are incorporated into our teaching.
  • You will have the opportunity to travel on an expenses-paid field trip to ancient sites in the Mediterranean during your second or third year.
  • You can enjoy extracurricular opportunities like joining the famous Greek Play that’s been performed live every year since 1953 or experiencing how classical topics are taught in local primary schools.
Amber

I have three favourite things about studying Classics at Kings. 1. There are no compulsory modules so you have complete freedom to specialise in what truly interests you. 2. Learning in London is incredible, especially the proximity to amazing museums to see what you are studying in real life. 3. The range of modules, geographically and chronologically, - I really wouldn't want to learn anywhere else!

Amber, Classics Student

Employability

Graduates of this Classics & The Ancient World BA go on to work in a range of professions, including law, banking, the civil service, information technology, librarianship, education, heritage industries, the media, journalism and the performing arts.

This degree also provides a solid grounding for further postgraduate study at King’s and other institutions.

Destinations

Recent graduates have found employment within the following job roles and companies:

  • Assistant Tax Advisor, Ernst & Young
  • Human Resources Administrator, Health Resources International
  • Web Administrator, Intrico Products Ltd
  • Illustrator, Self Employed Illustrator
  • Marketing and Publishing Graduate Scheme, The Telegraph Media Group
  • Research Intern, Environment Agency
  • Sales Operations Admin, Associated Press TV News
  • Latin Teacher, at a university
  • Client Relations Associate, Fidelity Investment
  • Senior Course Support Assistant, Coventry University

Employability

Graduates of this Classics & The Ancient World BA go on to work in a range of professions, including law, banking, the civil service, information technology, librarianship, education, heritage industries, the media, journalism and the performing arts.

This degree also provides a solid grounding for further postgraduate study at King’s and other institutions.

Destinations

Recent graduates have found employment within the following job roles and companies:

  • Assistant Tax Advisor, Ernst & Young
  • Human Resources Administrator, Health Resources International
  • Web Administrator, Intrico Products Ltd
  • Illustrator, Self Employed Illustrator
  • Marketing and Publishing Graduate Scheme, The Telegraph Media Group
  • Research Intern, Environment Agency
  • Sales Operations Admin, Associated Press TV News
  • Latin Teacher, at a university
  • Client Relations Associate, Fidelity Investment
  • Senior Course Support Assistant, Coventry University

Key information

Course type:
Single honours
Delivery mode:
Campus
Study mode:
Full time
Required A-level:
AAB
Full entry requirements, including contextual requirements
Duration:
Three years
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2025
Application deadline:
31 January 2024
Apply via UCAS

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