Subject Requirements

Essential: One essay-based subject (i.e. a Social Science such as Geography, Politics, Sociology and/or a Humanities or Arts subject such as English, History, a Modern Language). Geography may be particularly helpful. 

If you want to study Politics or Social Anthropology or International Relations or Sociology, or a combination of these, then this is the course for you. HSPS allows you to study a subject you may never have studied before. HSPS offers specialist or joint degrees and, in your first year, you can also choose to take a paper in another subject from outside HSPS if you wish (from example, from Psychology, Biological Anthropology, or Archaeology).

Subject Requirements

History and Politics at Cambridge is an exciting Honours degree which offers subjects from our highly-regarded History and Politics and International Relations courses, together with bespoke papers which will allow students to explore the space between the two disciplines. Students will develop skills in analysing the operation of power across institutions and societies around the world, and explore how different forms of evidence can be used to understand the past and the present.

The joint degree in History and Modern Languages combines the best of both subjects. It offers the opportunity to develop near native-speaker skills in a foreign language while studying a range of papers relating to the culture and history of the relevant language area; options in some languages also include film and contemporary politics. Students will also develop analytical skills in History through a wide range of topics in British, European, American and World history, as well as the history of political thought.

Robinson has around 20 undergraduate and 10 postgraduate historians at any time, with an active History Society.

Geography is a diverse subject, which uniquely spans the social and physical sciences. Students studying Geography explore a wide range of spatial processes, from environmental change to international development to economic globalisation. Students also benefit from fields trips, training in transferable research skills and an in-depth research project (dissertation) in their Third year.

Subject Requirements

Essential: A Level English Literature / IB Higher Level English Literature.

Also Useful: An A Level / IB Higher Level in a modern or ancient language and/or a second essay-based subject (e.g., History)

The course in Engineering at Cambridge, which lasts four years and leads to the award of an MEng degree, has some special features that distinguish it from those at most other universities. It is clearly acknowledged that its purpose is to educate, rather than to train you for a particular job. The course is designed to develop your intellectual abilities so that you will be able to tackle new and unexpected situations. The emphasis is placed firmly on understanding a relatively small number of basic physical principles which can be applied to a large number of technological problems.

Applicants for Education should take at least one A-level or IB Higher Level subject that is relevant to some aspect of the Education Tripos. 'Relevant' subjects might include social science and/or essay-based subjects, e.g. English Literature, English Language and Literature, Sociology, Psychology and/or History.

Education at Cambridge 

Economics at Cambridge is divided into Part I (first year) and Part II (second and third years). Part II is highly mathematical but Part I is self-contained and can make a good preparation for other subjects such as Law, Sociology and Social Anthropology (under HSPS), Philosophy or Theology. A transfer to Management Studies is possible for the third or a fourth year of study. All transfers depend on performance and the availability of spaces.

Subject Requirements

Essential: Mathematics