The Department achieved a 'Highly Satisfactory' rating in the last Teaching Quality Assessment.
History is an important subject.
Knowing about the past is an essential precondition to understanding the present, and also to uncovering the various uses that people make of history for their own ends and purposes. The History Department at Strathclyde enables students to acquire an extensive knowledge of the past and an understanding of the problems of historical interpretation, and equips them with significant transferable skills. Skills such as these are vital to the career prospects of all graduates, and our graduates undergo an intellectual training that makes them excellent candidates for management and other skilled professions where analytical abilities are paramount. For these reasons, major employers recruit history graduates in large numbers each year. These are national figures, but the picture for Strathclyde graduates is similar - our recent graduates have obtained positions ranging from financial management, marketing universities, auditing government departments and running a museum, to being town planners and housing officials.