Earth Science and Physical Geography BSc

University of Edinburgh · honours · 4 years · year abroad · UCAS 5519course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £26,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£26,500

median, based on 40 graduates · half earned £22,500–£31,500 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 95% with A levels. 30% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 35 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?

£26,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£23k
Median£27k
Upper quarter£32k

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 40 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 23, 14, 24, 13

Half of graduates earned between £22,500 and £31,500. Five years on, the median is £32,500. 85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 75% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures6
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 15% left95%30
In work or study, 15 months on15% studying85%25
Professional or managerial job75%15
Pay 3 years on, median£26,50040
Pay 5 years on, median£32,50050
Money

What does it cost?

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

Edinburgh fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

74%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 62% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 40 students answered

Highest: 97% agreed on question 1; lowest: 45% on question 24.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 197%
Question 280%
Question 395%
Question 491%
Question 593%
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Question 786%
Question 888%
Question 980%
Question 1059%
Question 1188%
Question 1280%
Question 1375%
Question 1456%
Question 1591%
Question 1688%
Question 1771%
Question 1871%
Question 1976%
Question 2089%
Question 2173%
Question 2289%
Question 2378%
Question 2445%
Question 2546%
Question 2674%

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 Edinburgh’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 Edinburgh is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.