Philosophy BA

University College London · honours · 3 years · UCAS 0793course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £31,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£31,000

median, based on 60 graduates · half earned £25,000–£41,500 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 82% with A levels, 17% with the IB, 1% with other higher education. 19% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 70 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?

£31,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£25k
Median£31k
Upper quarter£42k

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 60 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 £25,000 and £41,500. Five years on, the median is £39,500. 80% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 75% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 13% left97%65
In work or study, 15 months on15% studying80%40
Professional or managerial job75%25
Pay 15 months on, median£32,00015
Pay 3 years on, median£31,00060
Pay 5 years on, median£39,50060
Money

What does it cost?

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

UCL fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

83%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 63% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 35 students answered

Highest: 97% agreed on question 1; lowest: 54% on question 18.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 197%
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Question 2386%
Question 2456%
Question 2569%
Question 2683%

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 College London’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 College London is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.