Religion, Culture and Society MA

University of Edinburgh · honours · 4 years · optional year abroad · UCAS 5042course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £25,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£25,500

median, based on 50 graduates · half earned £20,000–£30,500 · 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: 86% with A levels, 2% with the IB, 5% via Access courses, 2% with other higher education. 8% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 65 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?

£25,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£20k
Median£26k
Upper quarter£31k

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 50 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

Half of graduates earned between £20,000 and £30,500. Five years on, the median is £32,500.

All outcome figures4
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 17% left90%55
Pay 3 years on, median£25,50050
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?

78%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 · 45 students answered

Highest: 97% agreed on question 3; lowest: 62% on question 8.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 195%
Question 289%
Question 397%
Question 482%
Question 583%
Question 680%
Question 788%
Question 862%
Question 974%
Question 1065%
Question 1175%
Question 1279%
Question 1380%
Question 1467%
Question 1595%
Question 1689%
Question 1786%
Question 1878%
Question 1977%
Question 2089%
Question 2182%
Question 2286%
Question 2377%
Question 2464%
Question 2568%
Question 2678%

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.