Neuroscience with an Integrated Placement Year MSci

University of Nottingham · honours · 4 years · optional foundation year · placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 0849course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £29,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£29,000

median, based on 40 graduates · half earned £22,000–£36,000 · 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: 90% with A levels, 10% with the IB, 5% with other higher education. 10% 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?

£29,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£22k
Median£29k
Upper quarter£36k

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 13, 14, 23

Half of graduates earned between £22,000 and £36,000. Five years on, the median is £38,000. 95% 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% left95%20
In work or study, 15 months on45% studying95%20
Professional or managerial job60%10
Pay 15 months on, median£30,50015
Pay 3 years on, median£29,00040
Pay 5 years on, median£38,00055
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?

100%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 71% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 10 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 1; lowest: 20% on question 14.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 1100%
Question 280%
Question 390%
Question 490%
Question 590%
Question 690%
Question 790%
Question 880%
Question 990%
Question 1060%
Question 1150%
Question 1280%
Question 1390%
Question 1420%
Question 1590%
Question 16100%
Question 17100%
Question 1889%
Question 1970%
Question 2080%
Question 2144%
Question 22100%
Question 2388%
Question 2467%
Question 2567%
Question 26100%

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.