Aerospace Engineering BEng

University of Nottingham · honours · 3 years · optional foundation year · optional placement year · UCAS 6459course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £33,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£33,500

median, based on 445 graduates · half earned £29,000–£38,000 · 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: 82% with A levels, 4% with the IB, 1% via Access courses, 12% with other higher education. 8% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 150 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?

£33,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£29k
Median£34k
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 445 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, 12, 22

Half of graduates earned between £29,000 and £38,000. Five years on, the median is £41,500. 81% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 85% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 19% left91%135
In work or study, 15 months on8% studying81%60
Professional or managerial job85%40
Pay 15 months on, median£33,000235
Pay 3 years on, median£33,500445
Pay 5 years on, median£41,500465
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?

87%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 69% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 95 students answered

Highest: 98% agreed on question 15; lowest: 64% on question 14.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
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Question 2469%
Question 2578%
Question 2687%

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.