Design Engineering BEng

University of Bristol · honours · 3 years · optional foundation year · UCAS 3245course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £34,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£34,000

median, based on 30 graduates · half earned £29,500–£40,000 · 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: 95% with A levels, 5% with the IB. 30% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 40 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?

£34,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£30k
Median£34k
Upper quarter£40k

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 30 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, 23

Half of graduates earned between £29,500 and £40,000. Five years on, the median is £48,500. 75% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 90% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 15% left95%40
In work or study, 15 months on10% studying75%20
Professional or managerial job90%10
Pay 15 months on, median£33,00015
Pay 3 years on, median£34,00030
Pay 5 years on, median£48,50030
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?

72%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 88% 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 3; lowest: 48% on question 14.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 195%
Question 286%
Question 3100%
Question 490%
Question 586%
Question 695%
Question 790%
Question 881%
Question 995%
Question 1067%
Question 1176%
Question 1290%
Question 1381%
Question 1448%
Question 1590%
Question 1686%
Question 1781%
Question 1857%
Question 1995%
Question 20100%
Question 2195%
Question 2295%
Question 2384%
Question 2474%
Question 2563%
Question 2672%

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.