Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Foundation Year MEng

University of Southampton · honours · 5 years · foundation year · UCAS 0290course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £40,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£40,500

median, based on 65 graduates · half earned £33,500–£50,000 · 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: 100% with A levels. 20% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 15 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?

£40,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£34k
Median£41k
Upper quarter£50k

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 65 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, 13, 23

Half of graduates earned between £33,500 and £50,000. Five years on, the median is £50,000. 90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 95% 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 on10% studying90%10
Professional or managerial job95%15
Pay 15 months on, median£36,50025
Pay 3 years on, median£40,50065
Pay 5 years on, median£50,00070
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?

70%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 76% 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 1; lowest: 62% on question 24.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 1100%
Question 286%
Question 391%
Question 4100%
Question 591%
Question 695%
Question 791%
Question 891%
Question 9100%
Question 1068%
Question 1186%
Question 1277%
Question 1368%
Question 1473%
Question 1591%
Question 1695%
Question 1782%
Question 1882%
Question 1991%
Question 2095%
Question 2191%
Question 2291%
Question 2386%
Question 2462%
Question 2565%
Question 2670%

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.