Science with Foundation Year BSc

University of Nottingham · honours · 4 years · foundation year · optional placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 2126course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £30,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£30,500

median, based on 295 graduates · half earned £25,000–£37,500 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 97% with A levels, 1% via Access courses, 1% with other higher education. 1% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 75 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?

£30,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£25k
Median£31k
Upper quarter£38k

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 295 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 12, 13, 11, 21

Half of graduates earned between £25,000 and £37,500. Five years on, the median is £38,500. 85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 95% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 125% left65%35
In work or study, 15 months on25% studying85%35
Professional or managerial job95%20
Pay 15 months on, median£32,00085
Pay 3 years on, median£30,500295
Pay 5 years on, median£38,500365
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?

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

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 81% 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: 100% agreed on question 1; lowest: 65% on question 14.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 1100%
Question 281%
Question 3100%
Question 497%
Question 583%
Question 678%
Question 795%
Question 885%
Question 992%
Question 1086%
Question 1192%
Question 1286%
Question 1396%
Question 1465%
Question 1596%
Question 1695%
Question 1782%
Question 1897%
Question 1990%
Question 2090%
Question 2191%
Question 2296%
Question 2391%
Question 2478%
Question 2584%
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 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.