Software Engineering (with Placement) BEng

Queen's University Belfast · honours · 4 years · placement year · UCAS 4811course page ↗

85% are in work or study 15 months after graduating.

Year 13 · applying

What do you need to get in?

Entry requirements for this course are not yet on file; see the university’s course page.

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

Who actually got in: 90% with A levels, 10% with other higher education. 4% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 80 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?

85%in work or further study 15 months after graduating

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 14, 13

85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 90% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures5
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 13% left98%80
In work or study, 15 months on0% studying85%30
Professional or managerial job90%25
Pay 15 months on, median£30,50025
Money

What does it cost?

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

Queen's Belfast fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

89%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 61% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 45 students answered

Highest: 95% agreed on question 20; lowest: 55% on question 24.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 191%
Question 273%
Question 367%
Question 487%
Question 573%
Question 682%
Question 769%
Question 873%
Question 980%
Question 1073%
Question 1182%
Question 1282%
Question 1376%
Question 1467%
Question 1586%
Question 1686%
Question 1784%
Question 1891%
Question 1989%
Question 2095%
Question 2193%
Question 2267%
Question 2373%
Question 2455%
Question 2578%
Question 2689%

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 Queen's University Belfast’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. Queen's University Belfast is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.