Music and Popular Music BA

University of Liverpool · honours · 3 years · optional placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 1977course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £19,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£19,000

median, based on 65 graduates · half earned £14,000–£24,000 · Discover Uni (LEO)

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.

Liverpool course page, read 19 September 2026 · Discover Uni entry profile

Who actually got in: 85% with A levels, 10% with the IB, 10% with other higher education. Based on 25 entrants.
Years 1–3

What do you study?

2compulsory modules in year 1, 13 optional

Module — one course unit, usually a term or a year long; “core” means everyone takes it. One UK credit is about ten hours of study; a full year is 120 credits.

Liverpool course page · optional modules vary by year

Year 2 · 0 core, 31 optional
Year 3 · 0 core, 21 optional
After graduating

Where does it lead?

£19,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£14k
Median£19k
Upper quarter£24k

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 65 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, 23

Half of graduates earned between £14,000 and £24,000. Five years on, the median is £24,000. 95% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 65% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 15% left95%25
In work or study, 15 months on15% studying95%20
Professional or managerial job65%10
Pay 15 months on, median£23,00020
Pay 3 years on, median£19,00065
Pay 5 years on, median£24,00055
Money

What does it cost?

£9,790a year for UK students, 2026/27 entry

Tuition fee loan — paid straight to the university; repayments start the April after you leave, at 9% of income above the threshold. UK fees are capped by government and rise with inflation; placement and study-abroad years are usually charged at a lower rate.

Liverpool fees page · source

About £29,370 in fees over 3 years, covered by a tuition fee loan you repay only when earning above the threshold. International students: £27,000 a year (2026/27).

National Student Survey 2024-26

What do students say?

50%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 71% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 10 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 8; lowest: 50% on question 26.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 183%
Question 292%
Question 392%
Question 483%
Question 583%
Question 692%
Question 783%
Question 8100%
Question 975%
Question 1083%
Question 1183%
Question 1283%
Question 1392%
Question 1467%
Question 1592%
Question 1692%
Question 1767%
Question 1892%
Question 1983%
Question 2092%
Question 2183%
Question 22100%
Question 2392%
Question 2475%
Question 2583%
Question 2650%

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 University of Liverpool’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. University of Liverpool is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.