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Postgraduate courses in History
Our postgraduate taught programmes take your understanding of historical scholarship to an advanced level. You will strengthen your knowledge of a range of issues, debates and specialist topics throughout history and gain confidence in using research tools for historiographical and theoretical study.
Explore a period or topic that interests you in great detail, develop transferable skills in analysis, research and communication, and prepare for future postgraduate research.
Our programmes
Browse our portfolio of postgraduate History programmes.
MSc Diplomacy & International Security
Start date: September
Study mode & duration: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time
Develop your understanding of contemporary and historical issues relating to diplomacy and security.
MSc/PgDip History
Start date: September
Study mode & duration: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time; 9 months full-time; 18 months part-time
Gain experience of advanced historical study while broadening your historical awareness and carrying out an extended piece of original historical research.
MSc/PgDip Health History
Start date: September
Study mode & duration: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time; 9 months full-time; 18 months part-time
Develop your understanding of a range of issues, debates, and specialist topics in the history of health and medicine.
This course is not accepting applications for 2026 entry.
Our students
Jennifer Gray
MSc History
I found that the MSc History would offer me the opportunity to delve further into topics that I had explored at undergraduate level and conduct research independently for coursework and my dissertation.
Stefan Butler
MSc Diplomacy & International Security
I have ambitions to work with the foreign and diplomatic sector of the government, as well as having a career in the refugee and asylum area of the United Nations. I believe that the Diplomacy and International Security course has prepared me, and has given me the confidence to succeed in these career paths.
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Kate Lochrie
MSc Diplomacy & International Security
Practitioner engagement is a key strand of the MSc Diplomacy and International Security. We were visited by the German Consul as well as Leigh Turner, former Ambassador to Austria. We also heard from Lord Ricketts, former British Ambassador to France and the first National Security Advisor under David Cameron.
Fees & funding
Applicants ordinarily resident in Scotland
SAAS offer postgraduate tuition fee loans of up to £7,000 per year. Full time students can also apply for a living cost loan of up to £6,900, making the total funding available £13,900.
EU residents
EU residents applying to full-time, face-to-face postgraduate taught programmes may be eligible for an EU Engagement Scholarship worth between £6000-£8000
Non-EU international residents
Non-EU international students beginning full-time, face-to-face postgraduate taught programmes in 2026/27 may be eligible for a scholarship worth between £6,000 and £8,000.
Contact us
Email: hass-pgt-admissions@strath.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 141 444 8600
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