Visual Arts and Film BA

Durham University · honours · 3 years · optional placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 0190course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £23,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£23,500

median, based on 40 graduates · half earned £19,500–£26,500 · 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, 5% via Access courses. 5% 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?

£23,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£20k
Median£24k
Upper quarter£27k

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 40 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 11, 14, 21

Half of graduates earned between £19,500 and £26,500. Five years on, the median is £31,000. 90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 60% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 15% left90%25
In work or study, 15 months on20% studying90%45
Professional or managerial job60%25
Pay 15 months on, median£29,00015
Pay 3 years on, median£23,50040
Pay 5 years on, median£31,00045
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; 64% 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 1; lowest: 77% on question 26.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 1100%
Question 2100%
Question 386%
Question 486%
Question 5100%
Question 6100%
Question 7100%
Question 886%
Question 993%
Question 1086%
Question 1193%
Question 1293%
Question 1386%
Question 1479%
Question 1593%
Question 1693%
Question 1786%
Question 1893%
Question 1986%
Question 2093%
Question 2193%
Question 22100%
Question 2393%
Question 2477%
Question 2585%
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.