Mathematics MMath

Durham University · honours · 4 years · optional placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 6614course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £36,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£36,000

median, based on 240 graduates · half earned £29,500–£44,500 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 99% with A levels. 48% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 100 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?

£36,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£30k
Median£36k
Upper quarter£45k

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 240 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 14, 13, 23

Half of graduates earned between £29,500 and £44,500. Five years on, the median is £50,000. 80% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 75% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 13% left94%90
In work or study, 15 months on20% studying80%45
Professional or managerial job75%25
Pay 15 months on, median£35,00065
Pay 3 years on, median£36,000240
Pay 5 years on, median£50,000275
Money

What does it cost?

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

Durham fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

77%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 75% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 75 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 1; lowest: 52% on question 25.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 1100%
Question 291%
Question 397%
Question 496%
Question 595%
Question 696%
Question 788%
Question 889%
Question 981%
Question 1077%
Question 11100%
Question 1292%
Question 1386%
Question 1480%
Question 15100%
Question 1697%
Question 1796%
Question 1891%
Question 1995%
Question 2083%
Question 2197%
Question 2295%
Question 2380%
Question 2462%
Question 2552%
Question 2677%

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