English BA

University of Bristol · honours · 3 years · optional foundation year · UCAS 0351course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £27,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£27,000

median, based on 210 graduates · half earned £22,500–£33,000 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 98% with A levels, 1% with the IB, 1% with other higher education. 4% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 165 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?

£27,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£23k
Median£27k
Upper quarter£33k

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 210 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, 23

Half of graduates earned between £22,500 and £33,000. Five years on, the median is £34,500.

All outcome figures4
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 13% left97%165
Pay 3 years on, median£27,000210
Pay 5 years on, median£34,500220
Money

What does it cost?

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

Bristol 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; 84% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 140 students answered

Highest: 97% agreed on question 1; lowest: 56% on question 24.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 197%
Question 294%
Question 393%
Question 486%
Question 591%
Question 680%
Question 786%
Question 867%
Question 977%
Question 1057%
Question 1175%
Question 1277%
Question 1384%
Question 1476%
Question 1593%
Question 1691%
Question 1772%
Question 1882%
Question 1977%
Question 2096%
Question 2192%
Question 2290%
Question 2382%
Question 2456%
Question 2574%
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 Bristol’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 Bristol is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.