Engineering (Mechanical) MEng

Durham University · honours · 4 years · optional placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 5034course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £35,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£35,500

median, based on 215 graduates · half earned £31,500–£43,500 · 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: 100% with A levels. 40% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 30 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?

£35,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£32k
Median£36k
Upper quarter£44k

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 14, 13, 23

Half of graduates earned between £31,500 and £43,500. Five years on, the median is £46,000. 75% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 100% 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 on0% studying75%15
Professional or managerial job100%10
Pay 15 months on, median£33,00070
Pay 3 years on, median£35,500215
Pay 5 years on, median£46,000220
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?

93%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 66% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 60 students answered

Highest: 98% agreed on question 13; lowest: 56% on question 24.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 190%
Question 284%
Question 397%
Question 495%
Question 592%
Question 693%
Question 795%
Question 887%
Question 990%
Question 1087%
Question 1189%
Question 1285%
Question 1398%
Question 1466%
Question 1595%
Question 1687%
Question 1775%
Question 1887%
Question 1995%
Question 2097%
Question 2190%
Question 2284%
Question 2372%
Question 2456%
Question 2557%
Question 2693%

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.