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MA History and Scottish History brings together courses on Scottish history with those from wider historical study. It allows you to combine a well-rounded and broad training in history with a particular focus on Scotland's past.

The University of Edinburgh has always been one of the great centres for the study of Scottish history, and offers an unrivalled concentration of expertise in this field. This programme fuses Edinburgh's excellence in this particular field with the wider offerings of its large and diverse history department.

Your study will seek to place Scotland's development over time in the broadest context and make connections, comparisons and contrasts with the history of other countries.

Our courses cover many aspects of Scotland's history from the medieval period to the recent past, including:

political history
cultural history
social history
economic history
intellectual history.

Entry Requirements

2026 entry requirements

Standard entry:
4 Highers at AABB (first sitting) or AAAB (two sittings) plus English at National 5.

Widening access entry:
4 Highers at ABBB (two sittings) plus English at National 5. Highers at BBB must be achieved in one.