Chinese and Linguistics MA

University of Edinburgh · honours · 4 years · year abroad · UCAS 1941course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £29,000 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£29,000

median, based on 30 graduates · half earned £21,000–£32,000 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 70% with A levels, 10% with the IB, 10% with other higher education. 20% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 10 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?

£29,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£21k
Median£29k
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 30 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 13, 23, 24

Half of graduates earned between £21,000 and £32,000. Five years on, the median is £34,500. 85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing.

All outcome figures5
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 11% left97%60
In work or study, 15 months on25% studying85%15
Pay 3 years on, median£29,00030
Pay 5 years on, median£34,50030
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?

55%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 66% 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: 95% agreed on question 1; lowest: 45% 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 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.