Accounting BSc

Durham University · honours · 3 years · optional placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 4755course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £44,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£44,000

median, based on 160 graduates · half earned £31,000–£52,500 · 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. 5% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 25 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?

£44,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£31k
Median£44k
Upper quarter£53k

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 160 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, 14, 23

Half of graduates earned between £31,000 and £52,500. Five years on, the median is £55,000. 88% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 85% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 115% left80%45
In work or study, 15 months on4% studying88%55
Professional or managerial job85%40
Pay 15 months on, median£35,00020
Pay 3 years on, median£44,000160
Pay 5 years on, median£55,000165
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?

90%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 77% 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: 85% on question 10.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 1100%
Question 2100%
Question 395%
Question 495%
Question 590%
Question 6100%
Question 795%
Question 8100%
Question 995%
Question 1085%
Question 11100%
Question 12100%
Question 1395%
Question 1490%
Question 15100%
Question 16100%
Question 1795%
Question 18100%
Question 1995%
Question 2095%
Question 2195%
Question 2295%
Question 23100%
Question 2495%
Question 2590%
Question 2690%

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.