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History

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Archaeology

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Classics

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History of Art

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At Glasgow, we’re committed to empowering future World Changers, which is why we’ve allocated over £15 million in scholarships. Discover the funding opportunities available to you for entry in the next academic year.

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Join us at one of the world’s top 40 universities for Archaeology and top 50 universities for History (QS World University Rankings) in the UK’s friendliest city (Conde Nast) and its top cultural & creative city (European Commission).

Glasgow offers exceptional resources for the historian, including our university museum, The Hunterian, Scotland’s oldest public museum with over a million items, and our library, one of Europe’s oldest and largest university libraries, with extensive collections from the medieval to the present.

Staff and students regularly make headlines with archaeological discoveries, and we’re ranked top 5 in the UK for Classics and Ancient History, and Celtic Studies by The Times Good University Guide.

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