Medicine MB,BChir

University of Cambridge · honours · 6 years · UCAS 5730, 5899, 5936, 6035, 6649, 6935, 7538, 7656, 7851, 8867, 9901, 3270, 4138, 4308, 5557, 0020, 0051, 0089, 0106, 0265, 0333, 0721, 1106, 1212, 1251, 1344, 2171, 2380, 2883course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £47,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£47,500

median, based on 215 graduates · half earned £44,000–£52,000 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 97% with A levels, 2% with the IB. 67% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 265 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?

£47,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£44k
Median£48k
Upper quarter£52k

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 215 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, 23

Half of graduates earned between £44,000 and £52,000. Five years on, the median is £54,500.

All outcome figures4
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 11% left99%270
Pay 3 years on, median£47,500215
Pay 5 years on, median£54,500280
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?

87%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 67% 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: 96% agreed on question 20; lowest: 47% on question 25.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 186%
Question 278%
Question 394%
Question 484%
Question 588%
Question 677%
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Question 856%
Question 988%
Question 1054%
Question 1182%
Question 1279%
Question 1379%
Question 1464%
Question 1588%
Question 1686%
Question 1750%
Question 1854%
Question 1977%
Question 2096%
Question 2193%
Question 2290%
Question 2368%
Question 2456%
Question 2547%
Question 2687%

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.