English BA

University of Southampton · honours · 3 years · optional placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 5241course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £25,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£25,000

median, based on 240 graduates · half earned £20,500–£30,500 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 100% with A levels. Based on 45 entrants.
After graduating

Where does it lead?

£25,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£21k
Median£25k
Upper quarter£31k

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 240 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 24, 14, 23

Half of graduates earned between £20,500 and £30,500. Five years on, the median is £31,000. 65% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 65% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 10% left100%35
In work or study, 15 months on15% studying65%20
Professional or managerial job65%25
Pay 15 months on, median£25,00015
Pay 3 years on, median£25,000240
Pay 5 years on, median£31,000245
Money

What does it cost?

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

Southampton 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; 88% 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: 100% agreed on question 1; lowest: 86% on question 14.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 1100%
Question 2100%
Question 396%
Question 4100%
Question 5100%
Question 6100%
Question 793%
Question 896%
Question 9100%
Question 1093%
Question 1196%
Question 1293%
Question 1396%
Question 1486%
Question 1596%
Question 16100%
Question 1793%
Question 1896%
Question 1989%
Question 20100%
Question 21100%
Question 2296%
Question 2396%
Question 2489%
Question 2589%
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 Southampton’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 Southampton is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.