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Combined Honours

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  • Undergraduate
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Course summary

This intellectually demanding multidisciplinary degree programme allows you to explore new subjects or develop your existing interests.

Study complementary disciplines or choose unusual subject combinations to reflect your individual interests and career aspirations.

Specialist career and graduate development modules will prepare you for your future.

Features of this degree include:

  • more than 20 subjects to choose from

  • try new subjects without prior experience

  • language learning from beginners' and advanced level

  • specialist career and graduate development modules

  • independent projects to combine your subject interests

Your degree certificate will reference the subjects you studied in Stages 2 and 3, allowing employers to identify your areas of expertise, for example, BA Combined Honours in English Literature and French.

Subject options

This course offers the following subject options:

  • Archaeology
  • Business
  • Chinese
  • Classics
  • Education
  • English Linguistic Studies
  • English Literature
  • Film (Documentary Practice)
  • French
  • Geography
  • German
  • History
  • History of Art
  • Japanese
  • Law
  • Media and Communication
  • Music
  • Philosophical Studies
  • Politics
  • Portuguese
  • Sociology
  • Spanish and Latin American Studies
  • Urban Studies

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Main Site (Newcastle)

Study options

  • Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) • Full-Time • Time abroad (mandatory) • 4 Years
  • Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) • Full-Time • 3 Years

Start dates

Application codes

Institution code:
N21

Newcastle University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

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Application codes

Institution code:
N21

This course may be available at alternative locations, please check if other course options are available.

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Entry requirements

Typical qualification requirements

A level
AAB

AAB. Specific subjects and grades may be required depending on the combination to be studied.

UCAS Tariff
Not accepted

Scottish Higher
AAABB

AAABB at Higher Grade. Combinations of Highers and Advanced Highers accepted and at least one Advanced Higher is preferred.

Scottish qualifications can be taken in more than one sitting.

Access to HE Diploma
Distinction: 30 Merit: 15

At least 30 level 3 credits at Distinction and 15 level 3 credits at Merit. Units which include essay-writing are desirable.

Extended Project
A

If you offer the Level 3 Extended Project Qualification, we will vary our offer to recognise this. Your project can be in any topic.

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
Offer: 34

A minimum of 34 points including at least two subjects at Higher Level grade 6 or above.

If not studying a full IB Diploma - Grades 6, 6, 5 at Higher Level and completion of a national high school diploma.

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
DDD

Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)
H1H1H2H2H3

H1H1H2H2H3 at Higher Level. Specific subjects and grades may be required depending upon the combination of subjects to be studied.

Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal
D3D3M2

D3,D3,M2 in Principal Subjects. Specific subjects and grades may be required depending on the combination to be studied.

T Level

This course accepts T Levels on a case by case basis.

Historical entry grades data

This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).

It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.

Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.

This course may have Historical entry grades data available, please select a course option to view.

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.

Additional fee information

Newcastle University Undergraduate tuition fees will be confirmed in July 2026.

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