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AAA at A level, A-levels Chemistry and Biology. GCSE English at Grade B or 5. Practical experience. Interview; graduates earn a median £35,000 three years on.

Typical A level offer
AAA

A-levels Chemistry and Biology. GCSE English at Grade B or 5. Practical experience. Interview · 58% of entrants came with A levels · 93% stay on after year 1 · Glasgow course page, Discover Uni

Year 13 · applying

What do you need to get in?

AAAtypical A level offer

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.

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

  1. 1A-levels Chemistry and Biology. GCSE English at Grade B or 5. Practical experience. Interview
Who actually got in: 58% with A levels, 2% via Access courses. 69% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 120 entrants.

UCAS tariff points — a points scale for grades: A* = 56, A = 48, so A*A*A = 160. Entrants’ totals include extra subjects.

Other qualifications2
QualificationTypical offerRequired subjects
Scottish HighersAAAAB Higher at end of S5 + BB Advanced HigherHighers Chemistry, Biology and Physics or Mathematics. Advanced Higher Chemistry and either Biology, Mathematics or Physics. Practical experience. Interview.
IB38 (6,6,6 HL)HL subjects Chemistry and Biology. SL English and Physics or Mathematics at 6. Practical experience. Interview.
After graduating

Where does it lead?

£35,000median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£30k
Median£35k
Upper quarter£37k

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 95 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 14, 13, 23

Half of graduates earned between £30,000 and £37,000. Five years on, the median is £41,500. 95% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 100% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 17% left93%130
In work or study, 15 months on0% studying95%45
Professional or managerial job100%40
Pay 15 months on, median£35,00035
Pay 3 years on, median£35,00095
Pay 5 years on, median£41,50085
Money

What does it cost?

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

Glasgow fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

86%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 86% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 105 students answered

Highest: 96% agreed on question 3; lowest: 41% on question 13.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 193%
Question 280%
Question 396%
Question 487%
Question 580%
Question 688%
Question 789%
Question 877%
Question 995%
Question 1043%
Question 1168%
Question 1259%
Question 1341%
Question 1460%
Question 1587%
Question 1687%
Question 1746%
Question 1848%
Question 1976%
Question 2095%
Question 2177%
Question 2294%
Question 2378%
Question 2460%
Question 2574%
Question 2686%

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