Geography (Foundation) (1+3) BSc

University of Liverpool · honours · 4 years · foundation year · optional placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 4152course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £24,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£24,500

median, based on 105 graduates · half earned £19,000–£29,500 · 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: 100% with A levels. 2% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 70 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?

£24,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£19k
Median£25k
Upper quarter£30k

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 105 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 13, 23

Half of graduates earned between £19,000 and £29,500. Five years on, the median is £31,000. 85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 80% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 15% left93%65
In work or study, 15 months on25% studying85%45
Professional or managerial job80%25
Pay 15 months on, median£28,00015
Pay 3 years on, median£24,500105
Pay 5 years on, median£31,000110
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 £39,160 in fees over 4 years, covered by a tuition fee loan you repay only when earning above the threshold.

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

81%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 · 50 students answered

Highest: 98% agreed on question 19; lowest: 53% on question 24.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 191%
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Question 2453%
Question 2578%
Question 2681%

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.