Data Science (Defence) BSc

University of Exeter · honours · 3 years · UCAS 8986course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £40,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£40,500

median, based on 30 graduates · half earned £32,500–£51,000 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 88% with A levels, 5% with the IB, 1% via Access courses, 3% with other higher education. 6% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 230 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?

£40,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£33k
Median£41k
Upper quarter£51k

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

Half of graduates earned between £32,500 and £51,000. Five years on, the median is £58,000. 90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 93% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 15% left94%240
In work or study, 15 months on6% studying90%75
Professional or managerial job93%60
Pay 15 months on, median£34,00045
Pay 3 years on, median£40,50030
Pay 5 years on, median£58,00035
Money

What does it cost?

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

Exeter fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

88%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 70% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 150 students answered

Highest: 94% agreed on question 19; lowest: 66% on question 14.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
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Question 2479%
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Question 2688%

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