Materials Chemistry with European Placement MSci

University of Glasgow · honours · 5 years · placement year · year abroad · UCAS 4909course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £28,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£28,500

median, based on 145 graduates · half earned £22,000–£33,000 · 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.

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

Who actually got in: 85% with A levels, 3% with the IB, 10% via Access courses. 36% arrived with 208 or more UCAS tariff points — roughly A*A*A or better. Based on 90 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?

£28,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£22k
Median£29k
Upper quarter£33k

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 145 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, 11, 21

Half of graduates earned between £22,000 and £33,000. Five years on, the median is £35,000. 90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 60% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 18% left90%70
In work or study, 15 months on10% studying90%25
Professional or managerial job60%15
Pay 15 months on, median£30,00025
Pay 3 years on, median£28,500145
Pay 5 years on, median£35,000170
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?

65%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 51% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 25 students answered

Highest: 96% agreed on question 15; lowest: 58% on question 24.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
Question 192%
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Question 485%
Question 592%
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Question 873%
Question 977%
Question 1069%
Question 1192%
Question 1281%
Question 1388%
Question 1473%
Question 1596%
Question 1692%
Question 1765%
Question 1876%
Question 1985%
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Question 2181%
Question 2281%
Question 2365%
Question 2458%
Question 2571%
Question 2665%

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.