Veterinary Nursing and Companion Animal Behaviour BSc

University of Bristol · honours · 4 years · optional foundation year · UCAS 8504course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £23,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£23,000

median, based on 25 graduates · half earned £21,000–£24,500 · 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: 93% with A levels, 2% with the IB, 4% with other higher education. 5% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 55 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?

£23,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£21k
Median£23k
Upper quarter£25k

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 25 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 £21,000 and £24,500. Five years on, the median is £27,500. 80% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 100% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 115% left85%40
In work or study, 15 months on5% studying80%15
Professional or managerial job100%10
Pay 15 months on, median£28,50010
Pay 3 years on, median£23,00025
Pay 5 years on, median£27,50025
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?

85%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 82% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 25 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 1; lowest: 48% on question 14.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 1100%
Question 296%
Question 393%
Question 4100%
Question 593%
Question 693%
Question 785%
Question 881%
Question 9100%
Question 1056%
Question 1178%
Question 1263%
Question 1393%
Question 1448%
Question 1596%
Question 16100%
Question 1767%
Question 1889%
Question 1981%
Question 2093%
Question 2189%
Question 22100%
Question 2392%
Question 2493%
Question 2576%
Question 2685%

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.