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A*A*A at A level, Mathematics; graduates earn a median £39,500 three years on.

Typical A level offer
A*A*A

Mathematics · 84% of entrants came with A levels · 97% stay on after year 1 · Cambridge course page, Discover Uni

Year 13 · applying

What do you need to get in?

A*A*Atypical A level offer

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

  1. 1Mathematics
  2. 2Physics
  3. 3Useful subjects: Further Mathematics to AS or A level if your school offers it
Who actually got in: 84% with A levels, 7% with the IB, 1% with other higher education. 78% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 330 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 LevelMathematics; Physics; Further Mathematics to AS or A level if your school offers it
After graduating

Where does it lead?

£39,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£35k
Median£40k
Upper quarter£50k

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 235 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 £34,500 and £50,000. Five years on, the median is £49,500. 89% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 94% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 13% left97%325
In work or study, 15 months on11% studying89%105
Professional or managerial job94%80
Pay 15 months on, median£40,00065
Pay 3 years on, median£39,500235
Pay 5 years on, median£49,500240
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?

85%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 · 175 students answered

Highest: 97% agreed on question 3; lowest: 59% on question 24.

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.