Politics and International Affairs BA

King's College London · honours · 3 years · optional year abroad · UCAS 3503course page ↗

AAA at A level; graduates earn a median £30,500 three years on.

Typical A level offer
AAA

80% of entrants came with A levels · 90% stay on after year 1 · King's course page, Discover Uni

Year 13 · applying

What do you need to get in?

AAAtypical A level offer; typical offer from redux_data.routing.entry.entryrequirement.entrytitle; subject requirements are loaded client-side

Typical offer — the grades most applicants are asked for. A contextual offer can be lower for applicants from under-represented backgrounds; none is published for this course.

King's course page, read 19 September 2026 · Discover Uni entry profile

Who actually got in: 80% with A levels, 17% with the IB, 2% via Access courses. 13% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 65 entrants.

UCAS tariff points — a points scale for grades: A* = 56, A = 48, so A*A*A = 160. Entrants’ totals include extra subjects.

After graduating

Where does it lead?

£30,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£25k
Median£31k
Upper quarter£37k

Median — the middle earner: half earned more, half less. Pay is for graduates of this subject at this university who finished in 2016-18, not adjusted for inflation; based on 150 graduates.

Discover Uni dataset (HESA and Office for Students, CC BY 4.0, contains HESA data); earnings from the Longitudinal Education Outcomes data (Department for Education) · aggregation level 24, 14, 13, 23

Half of graduates earned between £24,500 and £36,500. Five years on, the median is £40,000. 95% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 85% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 110% left90%50
In work or study, 15 months on10% studying95%15
Professional or managerial job85%15
Pay 15 months on, median£33,00050
Pay 3 years on, median£30,500150
Pay 5 years on, median£40,000155
Money

What does it cost?

Fees not on file; see the university’s fees page.

King's fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

68%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 79% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 35 students answered

Highest: 94% agreed on question 1; lowest: 39% on question 24.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 194%
Question 285%
Question 381%
Question 467%
Question 582%
Question 670%
Question 785%
Question 867%
Question 970%
Question 1055%
Question 1161%
Question 1267%
Question 1385%
Question 1452%
Question 1594%
Question 1685%
Question 1770%
Question 1863%
Question 1977%
Question 2079%
Question 2183%
Question 2276%
Question 2358%
Question 2439%
Question 2554%
Question 2668%

Question texts are published by the Office for Students; the dataset carries only the question numbers.

Modules, entry requirements and fees are facts read from King's College London’s course page on 2026-09-19 and may change; the university’s page is authoritative. Descriptions are not reproduced. Outcome figures are from the Discover Uni dataset. King's College London is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.