History and Modern Languages and Cultures BA

University of Sheffield · honours · 5 years · foundation year · year abroad · UCAS 0522course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £24,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£24,500

median, based on 50 graduates · half earned £22,000–£29,500 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 89% with A levels, 2% with the IB, 6% with other higher education. 2% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 65 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?

£24,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£22k
Median£25k
Upper quarter£30k

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 50 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, 23

Half of graduates earned between £22,000 and £29,500. Five years on, the median is £31,500. 90% 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 17% left93%65
In work or study, 15 months on10% studying90%40
Professional or managerial job60%30
Pay 15 months on, median£27,00015
Pay 3 years on, median£24,50050
Pay 5 years on, median£31,50060
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?

80%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 74% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 75 students answered

Highest: 97% agreed on question 1; lowest: 54% on question 18.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 197%
Question 286%
Question 392%
Question 492%
Question 588%
Question 687%
Question 785%
Question 882%
Question 984%
Question 1079%
Question 1188%
Question 1288%
Question 1373%
Question 1472%
Question 1592%
Question 1690%
Question 1765%
Question 1854%
Question 1992%
Question 2090%
Question 2185%
Question 2290%
Question 2370%
Question 2460%
Question 2589%
Question 2680%

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.