English and Philosophy BA

University of Sheffield · honours · 4 years · foundation year · optional year abroad · UCAS 1320course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £23,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£23,500

median, based on 355 graduates · half earned £19,500–£27,000 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 100% with A levels. Based on 20 entrants.
After graduating

Where does it lead?

£23,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£20k
Median£24k
Upper quarter£27k

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 355 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, 23, 22

Half of graduates earned between £19,500 and £27,000. Five years on, the median is £29,000. 70% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 50% 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 on5% studying70%15
Professional or managerial job50%40
Pay 15 months on, median£29,00020
Pay 3 years on, median£23,500355
Pay 5 years on, median£29,000370
Money

What does it cost?

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

Sheffield fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

86%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 79% 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: 68% on question 10.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 197%
Question 294%
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Question 490%
Question 587%
Question 677%
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Question 1068%
Question 1181%
Question 1290%
Question 1387%
Question 1474%
Question 1597%
Question 1697%
Question 1774%
Question 1873%
Question 1982%
Question 2090%
Question 2190%
Question 2293%
Question 2397%
Question 2479%
Question 2592%
Question 2686%

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 Sheffield’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 Sheffield is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.