Each academic year a new intake more than two hundred undergraduates is admitted and the Faculty also has more than 450 graduate students studying for masters degrees and the PhD.

It is notable among Cambridge's faculties for the influence of its alumni in public life.

[1] At undergraduate level, the faculty offers three courses (known as tripos) that result in a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.

[2] At postgraduate level, the faculty offers three types of degrees: Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Master of Studies (MSt), and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

[4] The MSt is a two year part-time course, consisting of taught modules and a research dissertation: it is jointly taught by the Faculty of History and the Institute of Continuing Education.