Criminology and Sociology BA

University of Nottingham · honours · 3 years · optional placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 5119course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £32,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£32,500

median, based on 705 graduates · half earned £26,000–£41,000 · 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.

Nottingham course page, read 19 September 2026 · Discover Uni entry profile

Who actually got in: 94% with A levels, 1% with the IB, 4% via Access courses. 4% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 70 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?

£32,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£26k
Median£33k
Upper quarter£41k

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 705 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 £26,000 and £41,000. Five years on, the median is £44,000. 84% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 77% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 16% left92%55
In work or study, 15 months on5% studying84%405
Professional or managerial job77%300
Pay 15 months on, median£32,500205
Pay 3 years on, median£32,500705
Pay 5 years on, median£44,000745
Money

What does it cost?

Fees not on file; see the university’s fees page.

Nottingham 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; 61% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 30 students answered

Highest: 97% agreed on question 1; lowest: 67% on question 14.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 197%
Question 280%
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Question 480%
Question 597%
Question 690%
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Question 880%
Question 983%
Question 1083%
Question 1193%
Question 1293%
Question 1380%
Question 1467%
Question 1593%
Question 1690%
Question 1787%
Question 1869%
Question 1990%
Question 2097%
Question 2196%
Question 2297%
Question 2380%
Question 2473%
Question 2588%
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 University of Nottingham’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. University of Nottingham is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.