Chemical Engineering (4 years) MEng

University of Oxford · honours · 4 years · UCAS 5934course page ↗

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

Pay three years after graduating
£40,500

median, based on 125 graduates · half earned £34,500–£52,000 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 98% with A levels, 1% with the IB. 67% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 180 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£35k
Median£41k
Upper quarter£52k

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 125 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 £34,500 and £52,000. Five years on, the median is £60,500. 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 19% left91%165
In work or study, 15 months on2% studying89%55
Professional or managerial job95%50
Pay 15 months on, median£35,50040
Pay 3 years on, median£40,500125
Pay 5 years on, median£60,500115
Money

What does it cost?

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

Oxford fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

91%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 52% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 85 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 19; lowest: 55% on question 25.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 194%
Question 280%
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Question 495%
Question 588%
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Question 882%
Question 979%
Question 1069%
Question 1187%
Question 1279%
Question 1375%
Question 1469%
Question 1590%
Question 1694%
Question 1771%
Question 1882%
Question 19100%
Question 2096%
Question 2195%
Question 2292%
Question 2372%
Question 2460%
Question 2555%
Question 2691%

Question texts are published by the Office for Students; the dataset carries only the question numbers.

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