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Classics (including preliminary year)

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  • Undergraduate
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Course summary

Classics at Cambridge isn’t just studied as a period in the past, it also looks at how classical culture, language and philosophy have affected the history of Western civilisation right up to the present day. Our course encompasses the history, culture, archaeology, art, philosophy and linguistics of classical antiquity and the study of original texts and artefacts. You can either specialise in a particular field or retain the breadth with which the course starts. The four-year course is for those with little or no Latin, and offers a preliminary year which focuses on Latin language and Roman culture.

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Trinity
  • St John's
  • Trinity Hall
  • Murray Edwards
  • Newnham
  • Queens'
  • Sidney Sussex
  • Churchill
  • Gonville & Caius
  • Downing
  • St Edmund's
  • Selwyn
  • Hughes Hall
  • Fitzwilliam
  • Pembroke
  • Girton
  • Magdalene
  • Homerton
  • Wolfson
  • Jesus
  • St Catharine's
  • Christ's
  • Open application
  • Emmanuel
  • Clare
  • Lucy Cavendish
  • King's
  • Peterhouse
  • Robinson

Study options

  • BA (Hons) • Full-time • 4 Years

Start dates

  • 10/2025

Application codes

Course code:
Q801
Institution code:
C05

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Application codes

Course code:
Q801
Institution code:
C05

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A*A*A Most common
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  2. Highest grades
  3. AAA
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Offer rate for UK school & college leavers

55% Students aged 17/18 who applied to this course were offered a place.

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Student Outcomes

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50 Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)

85 Go onto work and study

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