Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic BA

University of Cambridge · honours · 3 years · UCAS 6441, 6298, 6250, 5847, 5690, 4849, 4759, 4572, 3935, 2834, 2770, 2423, 2177, 1681, 1392, 7306, 9939, 9587, 9414, 9265, 8923, 8843, 8585, 8474, 7915, 7833, 7614, 7066, 0579, 7484course page ↗

A*AA at A level; graduates earn a median £30,000 three years on.

Typical A level offer
A*AA

95% of entrants came with A levels · 100% stay on after year 1 · Cambridge course page, Discover Uni

Year 13 · applying

What do you need to get in?

A*AAtypical A level offer; recommended: english (language or literature); history; languages (ancient or modern); recommended: ancient history, classical civilisation, economics, further mathematics, geography, politics, history of art, law, music; mathematics; most entrants achieved at least a*aa

Typical offer — the grades most applicants are asked for. A contextual offer can be lower for applicants from under-represented backgrounds; none is published for this course.

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

Who actually got in: 95% with A levels. 20% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 25 entrants.

UCAS tariff points — a points scale for grades: A* = 56, A = 48, so A*A*A = 160. Entrants’ totals include extra subjects.

Other qualifications1
QualificationTypical offerRequired subjects
IB41-42 points, with 776 at Higher Levelrecommended: English (language or literature); History; Languages (ancient or modern); recommended: Ancient History, Classical Civilisation, Economics, Further Mathematics, Geography, Politics, History of Art, Law, Music; Mathematics—
After graduating

Where does it lead?

£30,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£25k
Median£30k
Upper quarter£39k

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 360 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, 11, 21

Half of graduates earned between £25,000 and £38,500. Five years on, the median is £39,500. 80% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 50% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 10% left100%20
In work or study, 15 months on10% studying80%15
Professional or managerial job50%10
Pay 15 months on, median£30,00085
Pay 3 years on, median£30,000360
Pay 5 years on, median£39,500415
Money

What does it cost?

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

Cambridge fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

69%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 65% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 15 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 1; lowest: 31% on question 10.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
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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 Cambridge’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 Cambridge is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.