Marine Biology and Oceanography BSc

University of Liverpool · honours · 3 years · optional placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 2499course page ↗

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

Pay three years after graduating
£24,500

median, based on 215 graduates · half earned £20,500–£29,000 · 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: 95% with A levels, 5% via Access courses. Based on 50 entrants.
After graduating

Where does it lead?

£24,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£21k
Median£25k
Upper quarter£29k

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 215 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, 12, 22

Half of graduates earned between £20,500 and £29,000. Five years on, the median is £33,000. 95% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 30% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 15% left95%35
In work or study, 15 months on20% studying95%15
Professional or managerial job30%10
Pay 15 months on, median£29,00050
Pay 3 years on, median£24,500215
Pay 5 years on, median£33,000240
Money

What does it cost?

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

Liverpool fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

87%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 74% 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 1; lowest: 58% on question 17.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 1100%
Question 294%
Question 3100%
Question 488%
Question 570%
Question 682%
Question 782%
Question 882%
Question 994%
Question 1088%
Question 1173%
Question 1288%
Question 1388%
Question 1467%
Question 15100%
Question 16100%
Question 1758%
Question 1882%
Question 1994%
Question 20100%
Question 2188%
Question 2288%
Question 2394%
Question 2476%
Question 2569%
Question 2687%

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.