MA History

For entry in the academic year beginning September 2027, the tuition fees are as follows:

• MA (full-time)
  UK students (per annum): £14,400
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £29,800

The fees quoted above are fully inclusive of tuition, administration and computational costs.

Fees for entry are subject to yearly review. The University reserves the right to increase your tuition fee by up to 7% each year for courses lasting more than one year, including to reflect rising costs associated with delivering our educational and wider student experience. Postgraduate fees information .

Always contact the admissions team if you are unsure which fee applies to your qualification award and method of attendance.

International student CAS deposit

Self-funded international applicants are required to pay a deposit of £2500 towards their tuition fees before a confirmation of acceptance for studies (CAS) is issued. Some applicants will be required to pay a higher deposit. More information on tuition fee deposits .

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

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• Graduates of The University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University can receive a 10% discount on their master's degree tuition fees as part of our Manchester Alumni Loyalty Discount scheme.

HIST 64282 is part two of the History research training unit. The course familiarises students with essential skills for developing and designing original historical research. Each seminar will be workshop-based and involve group-based problem-solving exercises that encourage students to design and develop historical research. This course offers students key transferable skills in developing plans and proposals for transforming ideas into completed projects.

- To introduce post-graduate students to effective models of research design.

- To enable students to develop an independent research proposal in brief and extended form.

- To equip students with the appropriate skills needed to design and complete a substantial piece of   independent research (the History MA dissertation).

Student-centred workshop. 

This module is supported by the University of Manchester's online learning system, Canvas. This will be used to provide relevant course materials and any additional online resources. Students' final essay will be submitted online via Turnitin on Canvas. 

- Identify different models and components of research design and why they matter.

- Understand the importance of, and techniques for, explaining an idea in accessible and coherent prose, orally and in writing.

- Identify how to transform an independent idea into a manageable project with clear parameters and deadlines.

- Understand pedagogical approaches to undertaking independent research.

- How to formulate and test an hypothesis.

- Identify appropriate historical methods, sources and theory in relation to an independent piece of research.

- Analyse and distinguish between distinct theoretical and methodological approaches to the past and apply them to an independent piece of research.

- Develop an independent research question and evaluate its significance to historiography.

- Situate methodology in relation to the development of a research question.

 

- Identify, discriminate and explain differing modes of analysis in relation to the development of an independent idea.

- How to formulate and communicate an hypothesis.

- Locate, retrieve and assimilate relevant archival resources for completion of a research question.

- Compile systematic bibliographies and to present them according to scholarly conventions.

- Present complex ideas in coherent and accessible form in oral, visual and written format.

- Formulate and design a proposal with appropriate methodology, conceptual underpinning and theoretical framework.

- Manage a sustained program of regular weekly work.

- Present ideas fluently in writing and oral presentation to specialist and non-specialist audiences.

- Gain experience in problem solving, leadership and teamwork.

- Articulate and develop an hypothesis and a structure for testing it in written and oral form.

- Organise own learning through self-management and work to deadlines.

- Using IT for research and presentation purposes.

- Demonstrate the ability to work in a group and show leadership.

- Identify, analyse and apply a wide range of data to formulate and solve problems.

- Ability to bring analytical and research skills to bear on the formulation and design of proposals.

MA Dissertation Research Outline (Summative)

Feedback method	Formative or Summative
Written feedback for research outline and portfolio	Summative

 

Umberto Eco, How to Write a Thesis (Cambridge, Mass., 2015).