Chemistry MSci

King's College London · honours · 4 years · optional placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 8616course page ↗

AAB at A level; graduates earn a median £33,500 three years on.

Typical A level offer
AAB

80% of entrants came with A levels · 85% stay on after year 1 · King's course page, Discover Uni

Year 13 · applying

What do you need to get in?

AABtypical 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, 20% with the IB. 20% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 15 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?

£33,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£28k
Median£34k
Upper quarter£39k

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 30 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 £27,500 and £38,500. Five years on, the median is £37,500. 90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 100% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 10% left85%15
In work or study, 15 months on25% studying90%15
Professional or managerial job100%10
Pay 15 months on, median£35,00015
Pay 3 years on, median£33,50030
Pay 5 years on, median£37,50030
Money

What does it cost?

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

King's fees page

National Student Survey 2024-26

What do students say?

76%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 91% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 20 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 3; lowest: 71% on question 17.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 195%
Question 281%
Question 3100%
Question 490%
Question 590%
Question 690%
Question 795%
Question 881%
Question 990%
Question 1095%
Question 1190%
Question 1281%
Question 1385%
Question 1481%
Question 1595%
Question 1690%
Question 1771%
Question 1876%
Question 1986%
Question 2090%
Question 2186%
Question 2286%
Question 2376%
Question 2476%
Question 2580%
Question 2676%

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.