Education Studies BA

Durham University · honours · 4 years · foundation year · optional placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 4894course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £26,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£26,500

median, based on 155 graduates · half earned £22,000–£27,500 · 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: 98% with A levels, 1% with the IB. Based on 55 entrants.
After graduating

Where does it lead?

£26,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£22k
Median£27k
Upper quarter£28k

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 155 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 22, 13, 23

Half of graduates earned between £22,000 and £27,500. Five years on, the median is £32,500. 80% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 87% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 15% left95%50
In work or study, 15 months on0% studying80%10
Professional or managerial job87%80
Pay 15 months on, median£31,50060
Pay 3 years on, median£26,500155
Pay 5 years on, median£32,500155
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?

89%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 61% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 40 students answered

Highest: 98% agreed on question 1; lowest: 78% on question 8.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 198%
Question 284%
Question 390%
Question 478%
Question 581%
Question 692%
Question 787%
Question 878%
Question 987%
Question 1090%
Question 1194%
Question 1289%
Question 1389%
Question 1494%
Question 1586%
Question 1690%
Question 1790%
Question 1889%
Question 1984%
Question 2095%
Question 2187%
Question 2289%
Question 2387%
Question 2479%
Question 2581%
Question 2689%

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.