Aeronautics and Astronautics with Foundation Year and Industrial Placement Year BEng

University of Southampton · honours · 5 years · foundation year · placement year · UCAS 5429course 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: 70% with A levels, 5% with the IB. 10% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 35 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 13, 14, 23

Half of graduates earned between £29,000 and £44,000. Five years on, the median is £44,000. 89% 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%25
In work or study, 15 months on5% studying89%65
Professional or managerial job95%50
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?

88%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 · 25 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 19; lowest: 68% on question 24.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 192%
Question 272%
Question 384%
Question 488%
Question 576%
Question 688%
Question 792%
Question 880%
Question 972%
Question 1084%
Question 1196%
Question 1272%
Question 1384%
Question 1472%
Question 1596%
Question 1692%
Question 1776%
Question 1896%
Question 19100%
Question 2096%
Question 2192%
Question 2284%
Question 2383%
Question 2468%
Question 2583%
Question 2688%

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.