Plant Sciences BSc

University of Bristol · honours · 3 years · optional foundation year · UCAS 5106course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £28,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£28,000

median, based on 270 graduates · half earned £22,500–£34,500 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 75% with A levels, 5% with the IB, 5% via Access courses, 15% with other higher education. 10% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 15 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?

£28,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£23k
Median£28k
Upper quarter£35k

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 270 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 12, 24, 22, 23

Half of graduates earned between £22,500 and £34,500. Five years on, the median is £36,000. 85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 69% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 10% left95%15
In work or study, 15 months on18% studying85%195
Professional or managerial job69%110
Pay 15 months on, median£28,50055
Pay 3 years on, median£28,000270
Pay 5 years on, median£36,000325
Money

What does it cost?

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

Bristol fees page

National Student Survey 2024-26

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; 73% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 10 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 1; lowest: 80% on question 25.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 1100%
Question 2100%
Question 391%
Question 491%
Question 582%
Question 682%
Question 791%
Question 8100%
Question 991%
Question 1082%
Question 1182%
Question 1282%
Question 1391%
Question 14100%
Question 15100%
Question 16100%
Question 17100%
Question 1880%
Question 1991%
Question 2091%
Question 2191%
Question 22100%
Question 23100%
Question 2480%
Question 2580%
Question 2691%

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.