Modern and Medieval Languages BA

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A*AA at A level, at least one of the languages you want to study; graduates earn a median £30,000 three years on.

Typical A level offer
A*AA

at least one of the languages you want to study · 97% of entrants came with A levels · 99% 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: another language; english (literature or language); history; mathematics; most entrants achieved at least a*a*a

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. 1at least one of the languages you want to study
Who actually got in: 97% with A levels, 3% with the IB. 33% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 115 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: another language; English (literature or language); History; Mathematicsat least one of the languages you want to study
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 11, 14, 21

Half of graduates earned between £25,000 and £38,500. Five years on, the median is £39,500. 85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 81% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 11% left99%140
In work or study, 15 months on12% studying85%225
Professional or managerial job81%145
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?

84%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 52% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 70 students answered

Highest: 100% agreed on question 3; lowest: 41% on question 24.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 196%
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Question 2560%
Question 2684%

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.