Engineering (Mechanical) BEng

Durham University · honours · 3 years · optional placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 2527course 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: 95% with A levels. 30% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 20 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, 24

Half of graduates earned between £31,500 and £43,500. Five years on, the median is £46,000. 100% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 70% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 115% left85%15
In work or study, 15 months on15% studying100%15
Professional or managerial job70%15
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 2024-26

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; 75% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 15 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 13; lowest: 33% on question 24.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 187%
Question 280%
Question 393%
Question 493%
Question 567%
Question 687%
Question 780%
Question 853%
Question 973%
Question 1060%
Question 1180%
Question 1287%
Question 13100%
Question 1440%
Question 1593%
Question 1680%
Question 1760%
Question 1873%
Question 1973%
Question 2067%
Question 2173%
Question 2260%
Question 2364%
Question 2433%
Question 2543%
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 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.