Aeronautics and Astronautics with Foundation Year MEng

University of Southampton · honours · 5 years · foundation year · UCAS 5806course page ↗

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

Pay three years after graduating
£33,500

median, based on 110 graduates · half earned £29,000–£44,000 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 95% with A levels, 2% with the IB. 17% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 60 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£44k

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 110 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 14, 13, 23

Half of graduates earned between £29,000 and £44,000. Five years on, the median is £44,000. 85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 90% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 15% left95%40
In work or study, 15 months on0% studying85%15
Professional or managerial job90%10
Pay 15 months on, median£34,00040
Pay 3 years on, median£33,500110
Pay 5 years on, median£44,000110
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?

94%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 78% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 20 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 3; lowest: 61% on question 14.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 194%
Question 272%
Question 3100%
Question 494%
Question 583%
Question 689%
Question 783%
Question 883%
Question 994%
Question 1089%
Question 1183%
Question 1289%
Question 1383%
Question 1461%
Question 1594%
Question 1689%
Question 1789%
Question 1882%
Question 19100%
Question 2076%
Question 21100%
Question 2294%
Question 2383%
Question 2483%
Question 2571%
Question 2694%

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.